anushand Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 x64 version is great, but what I can't take is the time it takes to load up. 32bit version loads up instantly. x64 takes as much as 10 seconds!!! any way to make it load faster? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltBait Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 Wow. 10 seconds? Do you get bored waiting for the microwave oven? Quote Click to play: Download: BoltBait's Plugin Pack | CodeLab | and how about a Computer Dominos Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panhead Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 well, even if it is slower start up, lots of people say that PDN works better on 64x 8 seconds for me i have 64x Quote My deviantART iGraphix ~96% of teens won't stand up for God. Put this on your page if you're one of the 4% who will. skilletism (n.) - The abnormal liking of the band "Skillet". (see PANHEAD) panhead n. - an individual who shows extreme enthusiasm for the band Skillet. Generally driving for hours to concerts with frying pans riding shotgun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 Please remember to post in the correct section. Moved to Bugs & Troubleshooting Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 8 seconds for first startup, or for every startup? If it takes 8 seconds, and then you close it and immediately reopen it, does it still take 8 seconds? For me it's instant (yes, on x64). Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panhead Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 faster if i do that, but i think it matters about what windows i have open, i have ... one word document, firefox (6 tabs), Terragen 2, Quick Cam, AIM, AIM convo, IE Quote My deviantART iGraphix ~96% of teens won't stand up for God. Put this on your page if you're one of the 4% who will. skilletism (n.) - The abnormal liking of the band "Skillet". (see PANHEAD) panhead n. - an individual who shows extreme enthusiasm for the band Skillet. Generally driving for hours to concerts with frying pans riding shotgun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrochild Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 x64 version is great, but what I can't take is the time it takes to load up. 32bit version loads up instantly. x64 takes as much as 10 seconds!!! any way to make it load faster? 10 Seconds?!? OHMAIGAWD! How can you even stand to use a program that takes 10 WHOLE SECONDS to load? Gee, if I ever had to wait 10 seconds for anything, I think I'd blow a gasket. Hell, I might even start brushing my teeth with all that free time! Quote ambigram signature by Kemaru [i write plugins and stuff] If you like a post, upvote it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quenlin Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 Ten whole seconds? Christ, with that much free time I could try and figger out Pyros old sig! Quote My DA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 Ten seconds? Gosh, that's longer than these people took to think up their funny quips! ;-) Quote  The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 It's not uncommon for it to take ~5-10 seconds in a "cold" startup case. You'll have a lot of disk activity in this case. Depending on your system you may or may not have any audible indication of this. (for instance, laptops generally have quieter hard drives) This performance characteristic is the same on 64-bit and 32-bit. The performance advantage for 64-bit is in rendering of layers' composition and effects. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anushand Posted December 29, 2007 Author Share Posted December 29, 2007 Rick, sorry for posting in the wrong section. Yes, this is that cold start time that I posted. It takes only 1 second or so load for the second time. It probably has something to do with .NET libraries being too large on 64bit? I don't know...I'm not a programmer But the issue is, sometimes I just want it to open once, edit something and save. Waiting for a whole 10 seconds (maybe slightly less, but you get the point...it is SLOW!) just for that is insane... Is there a workaround...? I mean, not from within the program, but a tweak or something, to do in Windows? (Mind you this is on Vista x64 with C2D, 4GB RAM....) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pantera1395 Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 faster if i do that, but i think it matters about what windows i have open, i have ... one word document, firefox (6 tabs), Terragen 2, Quick Cam, AIM, AIM convo, IE Wow, now thats multitasking! I've got this window, with two tabs, One IM, and Pdn. It still loads instantly for me. Quote Myspace, Hack this site.org, My DAmn page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrochild Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 But the issue is, sometimes I just want it to open once, edit something and save. Waiting for a whole 10 seconds (maybe slightly less, but you get the point...it is SLOW!) just for that is insane... OK, head over to Photoshop or GIMP, time their startups, and then come back here and try to keep complaining about Paint.NET's startup time. Quote ambigram signature by Kemaru [i write plugins and stuff] If you like a post, upvote it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 I run into this myself on occasion. It's simply doing a lot of random-access disk I/O to load up Windows Forms (part of .NET). I have a Core 2 Quad QX6700 2.66 GHz with 4 GB of DDR2-800 RAM myself, and some recent and fast hard drives. But I also tend to have tons of stuff open including multiple Firefox windows, 1-2 copies of Visual Studio 2008, Outlook with a million e-mails in it (ok maybe only 50,000 but still), 1-2 copies of Excel, Expression Web, and multiple Virtual PC's using upwards of 2 GB RAM all by themselves (much easier to test on XP and in high-DPI that way!). My 8 GB upgrade is on the way from Newegg as we speak, and I desperately need it. The solution? Buy a solid state hard drive. I hear they're down as low as $500 for a 16 GB nowadays Or plug in a USB key and turn on ReadyBoost. Try defragmenting your hard drive. Put your page file on a separate physical hard drive from your Windows and Paint.NET installations (I have an 8GB pagefile on D:, and Windows/Paint.NET are on C:, for instance). Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pantera1395 Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 And also, to make it a little faster, you can open task manager, go to process, right click Paint.NET, and change the priority level to high Quote Myspace, Hack this site.org, My DAmn page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 No, that won't affect startup performance. I do not recommend doing that: if Paint.NET gets hungry for CPU time then it could make the rest of your system unusable. There's already code in there to adjust priority on a short-term basis to keep the user interface snappy and responsive, so there's no need to manually adjust it. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew D Posted December 31, 2007 Share Posted December 31, 2007 I'm on 32x, and it takes 15 seconds for mine to load, but I don't complain. It's hardly slow. Norton, on the other hand, is slow, and takes up tons of CPU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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