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nova · Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2000 9:52 pm

..yeah, what's with it?

see for yourself:

So the selection itself is creating multiple 'phantom' outlines of its own shape where there is *no* selection present. Zooming in/out may move the phantom lines around, but doesn't always get rid of them.

i'm thinking maybe it's my video card (NVidia RIVA TNT - 16MB?), or my ram (128MB) that's causing the problems, but other than that, i'm clueless. Has anyone out there ever had this problem or could think of why this is going on?

Tnx,

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Isric · Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2000 9:54 pm

weird. wish i could help.

Solitaire · Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2000 9:59 pm

Hey, post that pic when finished, these cuts look good.

kanabis · Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2000 10:43 pm

how fast is your comp and how much ram does it have?

LordArioch · Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2000 10:50 pm

Looks like you flinched (or your computer thinks you did ^_^).

nova · Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2000 11:07 pm

okies:

isric: yea, me too

solitaire: the bottom one's basically finished. check me site for the pic (click on the "!" below) the top, it'll be awhile. i started it a few hours ago.

kanabis: 600mhz, 128MB RAM

LordArioch: must be my Mountain Dew withdrawl. yea, Sparkle's pretty good to me most of time. not this time though

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Andromeda · Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2000 11:20 pm

Hey Nova, i have the same problem ! ..
I think its the video card ..
maybe its just my monitor...

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g:tech · Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2000 12:06 am

Hey, Nova!

I had the same problem too for a while. It was a while ago and I was glad to have it fixed, so I don't remember exactly what the fix was. I think it was indeed my video card (Nvidia) that was causing the problem. I think I downloaded the latest drivers or got a newer card (ack, money) to fix it. It was an annoying problem, I know.

Now I have a TNT2 Ultra with 256 megs of ram and no problems.

Good luck with your problem... hope you can fix it!

peace,
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Ko · Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2000 2:11 am

Hmnnn...

Nova: Is that photo-tracing that I see in the first part of the pic??

Ko

Rob M · Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2000 2:51 am

The TNT is a good card, I was using one myself for almost a year (Now that my GeForce 2 GTS is hauling ass in this machine, I gave it to my Dad).
I can't see why the RAM would be the cause either.

Just minimize the window that your painting is in and restore it (not photoshop, just that window inside photoshop). That usually gets rid of them.

[Shizo] · member Member # Joined: 22 Oct 1999 Posts: 3938

I had problems in PS also, but they were different. Whether i was drawing with a brush, random pixels would appear around the brush!! Very very unusable.. Anyway it came out to be the burned mobo that when i got a new one, it got fixed. (always make sure the back side of motherbard is isolated from anyy metal hehe)

EviLToYLeT · Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2000 11:21 am

Yah. I had that problem before. Tweak with the refresh rate.. that might help. also you may want to try minimizing the picture you work on....it should get rid of the ghost lines (if it happens)

hennifer · Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2000 11:34 am

i often have a bit of garbage show up on the screen when i'm working with a large image, so i guess it must be a ram problem for me. but, i found that clicking on the last entry in the 'history' list makes the picture refresh and all the garbage disappear. try that, maybe you've got the same problem as i do.

nova · Posted: Thu Nov 23, 2000 2:57 pm

alo,

wow, i wasn't expecting so many replies!

g:tech: i'm going to see if i can get a new driver, that worked when my tablet died one time.

Ko: yep, i'm trying something new

Rob M: that works, restarting photoshop takes care of it for a while, too

[Shizo]: i looked at the motherboard 2 days ago, didn't look burned to me

EviL ToYLeT: my refresh rate is at a measly max of 60.. should i mebe make it lower?

hennifer: hmm, sounds like a tangible solution, thanks

Solitaire: 1. shmanks

yesiree, some of the images in there are 3D, and i recently put up the head of a 3D character i'm working on at school in A:M.

2. thanks again.. they're my favorite part to do. it seems like when you make the eyes the character all of a sudden has more life to it.. it's cool

good idea for a tutorial too, one of the big reasons i don't have any up is that i don't know what people want to see, that hasn't covered a lot before. hmm.. i'll get to work on it.

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[This message has been edited by Nova (edited November 23, 2000).]

Solitaire · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2000 12:09 am

cool site and I enjoyed most of your work; keep up the good work.
Are you also in 3D? One of your heads looked like it, but I wasn't sure...

Solitaire · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2000 12:12 am

btw, your favourite discipline seems to be the eyes - your eyes are among the most impressive I 've ever seen - I am now entering your tutorial section hoping there's one on eyes

Solitaire · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2000 11:05 am

give me a shout, when the "eye" tut is ready

Jerry · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2000 1:21 pm

I have a scroller thing on the middle of my mouse and when I use it when I zoom up it creates a different problem... I have a Voodoo 3 and I don't think it's the video card that causes that... it's most likely the software (Photoshop) this goes away if I minimize then maximize again.

Jerry · Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2000 1:29 pm

I have a scroller thing on the middle of my mouse and when I use it when I zoom up it creates a different problem... I have a Voodoo 3 and I don't think it's the video card that causes that... it's most likely the software (Photoshop) this goes away if I minimize then maximize again.

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Blade · member Member # Joined: 23 Nov 2000 Posts: 85

Well what I would suggest is to go to www.Madonion.com and go to the discussion boards and ask around for a site that has the latest detonator drivers for riva tnt video cards and then procedd to download and install those drivers once you get the info on that website. I hope this will help you out with your problem it seems like a video card problem to me. If it doesn't work post again and ill ask my friend who is more resourceful than I am in the technical field of computers.