It's true that my old box at home is a Dual PIII 733mhz, with 512mb RAM and GeForce4ti 128mb (yep, the grapihcs card is a bit of an overkill compared to the rest). But this time I wasn't testing it on my home machine, but on my work one which is a brand new AMD Athlon 64, GeForce FX 5900XT, 2 gig RAM...and only installed a couple of months ago with Win2K. I run Win2k at both home and work (wouldn't touch ME with a 10 foot pole...and kind of sceptical about XP, NT was nice if you didn't mind not being able to play any games on it).
Maybe I should run some speed tests on this box, maybe it has some bottlenecks that are slowing it down...or maybe PaintShot doesn't like Athlon processors. As for the home box, I've kind of been considering getting a new one. But just keep prostponing it. I actually love having 2 processors, as the Windows remains responsive even if I'm doing something that would normally use up all the processing power (such as rendering). Most software I have doesn't support dual processors, but it's kind of nice to be able to blast away in Soldat without any slowdown while waiting for a rendering. :)
Anyway, thanks for the feedback and for consistently poiting out nice inexpensive software options. Photoshop may be a very nice package, but there are lot of other tools out there too.
Ragnar
Maybe I should run some speed tests on this box, maybe it has some bottlenecks that are slowing it down...or maybe PaintShot doesn't like Athlon processors. As for the home box, I've kind of been considering getting a new one. But just keep prostponing it. I actually love having 2 processors, as the Windows remains responsive even if I'm doing something that would normally use up all the processing power (such as rendering). Most software I have doesn't support dual processors, but it's kind of nice to be able to blast away in Soldat without any slowdown while waiting for a rendering. :)
Anyway, thanks for the feedback and for consistently poiting out nice inexpensive software options. Photoshop may be a very nice package, but there are lot of other tools out there too.
Ragnar