Photoshop resurrected from freeze….

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MCR
Oct 11, 2005
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This ia also happening to me as well. I am using a wacom Intuos3 9×12 tablet with PhotoshopCS 2. I am using the latest drivers from www.wacom.com and photoshop is updated, but I am still getting this freeze problem. I hate this because its totally random. Sometimes I can paint for 20 minutes then it freezes, but normally its between 5-10 minutes. We really need a fix for this soon, because I’m tearing my hair out at an alarming rate.

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deebs
Oct 11, 2005
I tried a generic lo-cost workaround to avoid some of the glitches and couldn’t believe the results.

The Wacom is now gathering dust even though I have tried to be patient with it

Perhaps try it and see MCR? At (usually) 10 % of the price it;ll probably be less than the bisodol bill?
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Pickman
Oct 11, 2005
I am very disappointed. Even with my new Intuos 3 i had the same freeze of phtoshop like i had with the Inutos 1.

Since the freeze appears only while painting, AND happened on two different computers with two different tablets and two different OS’ses, i can only think of one final reason: another program interfers with the tablet-driver.

I checked all the programs on both machines. I have no clue, WHAT might cause this.

Are there ANY programs known to cause trouble with the wacom driver?

-The freeze is NOT reproducable.
-The freeze ONLY affects Photoshop (i had this also in freehand two or three times) and ONLY while painting with the wacom.
-The strokes suddenly diasppear, next click brings up the hourglass, application is no longer responding.
-Windows, all other applications and the tablet are still fully operational. -Memory usage seems to have no effect. This happened with small images, as well with big ones, sometimes after hours sometimes after seconds.

I am really helpless with this one…

I tried everything that wacom or adobe adviced me to to. I really think it has to be a program or background task interferring, but how can i find out?

I realized, that motherbaord monitor was running in the taskbar on both machines.

Can this be the cause? Can someone confirm that hardware monitoring software can cause trouble? I will further investigate this. No clue at all.

It’s difficult to keep all secondary programs closed all the time, because i established a workflow that is now extremely slowed down, but until i find the bugger, i think i have to work like in the old win95 days: with just one application open.

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