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FallDamage · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 5:52 pm

Has there been a resolution for this yet, becuase it's driving me up the wall. Basically, the program will crash when the scatter brush is used in conjunction with a wacom.

I found this on their help page, but I haven't been able to find any sort of resolution. Updating drivers didn't work. I'm hooked on scattering, so this is a major issue for me. Has anyone here ran into this and found a way to resolve it other going back to PS7?

http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/331779.html

B0b · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 4:55 am

will test it out on monday

eyewoo · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 4:56 am

I haven't experienced that problem and I do use scattering...

Wacom Intuoe 3, 4.93-3
Photoshop CS ver, 8

Perhaps it is related to your graphics card...?
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Mikko K · member Member # Joined: 29 Apr 2003 Posts: 639

I remember that a few years back my system used to completely hang when I was moving something quickly around the screen. For example, scrolling webpages with lots of images, or doing transformations with Photoshops transform/distort etc.

A really weird problem, but the solution was my graphics card was broken, there was some memory leak or something. One friend suggested changing the card, and after that I had no problems at all.

It seems that broken hardware can cause strange problems. I don't know if this is the case with your problem.

Have you tried re-installing your Photoshop?

FallDamage · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 5:44 am

Thanks for the replies guys, I reverted to CS1(ver8) and the problem seems to be strangely resolved.

Weirdness, and too bad, CS2 was otherwise decent.

B0b · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 1:34 pm

have u tried turning off graphics acceleration?

FallDamage · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 3:54 pm

No, I guess I will though. I'm in denial about the possibility of my GFX card going down.

B0b · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 3:20 am

sorry to say i am unable to produce a crash when using the scatter option on a brush with my Wacom -

driver version 4.91-2
Photoshop CS2 with 55% of RAM
Image Cache lvs 8

had winamp running in the background file browser on my 3rd display and FF1.5 running on my 2nd..

My Sys:
Windows 2K
AMD dual MP1800+
2.5GB ECC RAM
160GB RAID 0 IDE133 Drives
AGP: 3Dlabs Wildcat VP870 + PCI: ATi Rage Pro 3D for tripple head display
A6 Wacom Intuos 2 set to screen 1

i was playing with the settings for a good 10 mins different options selected in the brush pallet, but no crash..

screenshot - reduced

brush settings

FallDamage · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 6:10 pm

Hmm, yea it doesn't happen to everybody, that's for sure, and your findings do seem to indicate that the problem may be specfic to me. Thanks for going through all that trouble to assist me here, it's really helpful of you.

I guess I'll have to take a closer look at my own settings.