mongreldog
Joined: 26 Aug 2012
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 Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 2:33 pm Post subject: Laggy cursor=angular lines in CS2 Tried EVERYTHING. Help :( |
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I use Photoshop CS2 for drawing with a wacom graphire4. Recently an intermittent problem has become near-permanent and insufferable. I have tried absolutely everything I can think of, and nothing seems to help.
Basically, using the brush (or any other drawing/painting) tool results in kinked lines. See the picture below:
As you can see, where I've tried to draw a quick (if dirty) circle, the line, which should be smooth, is kinked. It's as if the pen isn't being sampled quickly enough.
There are lots of possible reasons for this. To eliminate possible suggestions let me run through a(n incomplete) list of the things I've tried so far:
- turned on smoothing in brush options (that's an easy one!)
- altered memory available to photoshop (increasing and decreasing)
- increased windows virtual memory / turned off virtual memory
- tried every possible combination of scratch drives, including not including the photoshop host drive at all
- reinstalled photoshop
- tried tons of image resolutions (from 320x200x72dpi to 3000x3000x300dpi and beyond)
- used a different version of photoshop (2 actually)
- tried every single wacom driver that is still available (about 
- tried 10+ different legacy graphics drivers
- reinstalled windows (XP pro SP3)
- reinstalled windows on a new hard drive
- removed my cpu, blasted out the heatsink, replaced the thermal paste and replaced the cooler
- turned off all gpu acceleration both in photoshop and in windows
- run memtest overnight (tons of passes, not one error)
- tried 2 different tablets
- tried every USB port, tried the tablet(s) directly in the usb ports and in a powered USB hub
- tried turning off pen flicks and all the tablet PC stuff
- monitored task manager for any processes that might be hogging CPU time (nothing there)
- increased Photoshop's CPU priority -- no difference.
- tried the tablet in gimp (ugh) -- works absolutely fine, no lag. :I
The other weird thing here -- perhaps the weirdest thing -- is that it's not an inadequacy in my current system: photoshop's worked just fine in the past on exactly the same system. Here's an image I drew on the computer when it was working fine.
It's completely insane basically. I'm no expert with computers but I can usually solve a problem, and this one is completely beyond me. I need help. |
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