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Post by BuckSkin on Nov 29, 2015 8:53:35 GMT
Some months ago, someone here posted a link to a free download of PPS Perfect Effects 9, which I did download and have been using quite often.
However, ever since day one, it's trustworthiness is questionable at best; about twice out of three times, after meticulously applying and editing an effect, when I click to SAVE the image, it begins the saving process, and then, when it has almost completed the saving process, a message pops up stating that PE9 has quit working and Windows is closing the program and I lose all of my work.
So long as I close every other program and only have PE9 running, I might manage to have a 50% success rate; however, if I add more than one effect, it will crash for certain.
If I wish to apply multiple effects, I have to "close & save" after each single effect and then reload the new image again for each additional effect, all the time in fear that it will crash again.
My desk-top PC is fairly new and I don't have any problems with any other photo editing programs behaving in such fashion.
Am I the only one experiencing this problem and how do I fix it ?
Also, I wish there was some way that I could get it to communicate with my Elements 7 so that I could send images directly back and forth, but I guess that is expecting too much.
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Post by Sepiana on Nov 29, 2015 9:19:32 GMT
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Post by Peterj on Nov 29, 2015 15:30:31 GMT
Insure that you have the latest video driver.
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Post by BuckSkin on Dec 4, 2015 14:41:14 GMT
Insure that you have the latest video driver. I am somewhat ignorant about such things; how do I know what video driver I have and whether it is the latest version ?
I looked at the minimum requirements in the link Sepiana provided and then investigated just what model desktop I have and what it will support.
I could not make much sense as to which video card it has; but I did learn that the only improvement that can be made to my unit is to add RAM; it comes with 4 GB and will support 8 GB; the rest of the internals are like most things these days --- all soldered and welded together such that upgrades cannot be installed; when one section fails, the whole machine is then junk.
When my ship comes in, I may add the 4 GB of RAM and see what that does.
Thanks everyone.
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Post by Peterj on Dec 4, 2015 15:46:19 GMT
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Post by BuckSkin on Dec 4, 2015 16:14:38 GMT
Thanks so much; I will investigate.
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Post by Sepiana on Dec 4, 2015 17:55:19 GMT
I am somewhat ignorant about such things; how do I know what video driver I have and whether it is the latest version ?
I looked at the minimum requirements in the link Sepiana provided and then investigated just what model desktop I have and what it will support.
I could not make much sense as to which video card it has; but I did learn that the only improvement that can be made to my unit is to add RAM; it comes with 4 GB and will support 8 GB; the rest of the internals are like most things these days --- all soldered and welded together such that upgrades cannot be installed; when one section fails, the whole machine is then junk.
When my ship comes in, I may add the 4 GB of RAM and see what that does.
Thanks everyone. BuckSkin,
I would strongly recommend you contact ON1 for tech support. I don't really know the culprit is the video card. It could even be a corrupted .exe file. Save yourself some time and aggravation. Get the answer straight from the horse's mouth.
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Post by BuckSkin on Jun 26, 2016 19:17:42 GMT
I think I fixed her where she works without crashing.
I installed a new graphics card; EVGA/nvidia GEForce GT 730 2GB GDDR5 64-bit; this thing has an external fan.
Thus far, I have only tested with a single image; but, if it continues to perform as it did with that image, my problems are gone.
Before, even with my race-horse E8600 3.33 gz processor and 8GB RAM, PE9 would crash at the slightest provocation.
If I added more than a single filter/adjustment, it would for certain crash; it always did this when saving.
About two of three times it would crash with only a single filter.
I had gotten in the habit of adding only one filter, saving that, reloading it, adding my next filter, saving that, reload, rinse, and repeat, until I got what I was aiming for; all this with PE9 crashing at least three times, causing me to have to reload and try again.
Now that I have this new graphics card, I loaded a full-size image and just started stacking on the filters, at least ten; I clicked "save and close", fully expecting it to crash, and in about half-a-second, it saved, closed, and was right there ready for the next image.
Now, if I could just figure a way to make Elements 7 communicate with PPS PE9.
Thanks for reading.
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Post by Sepiana on Jun 26, 2016 19:41:47 GMT
BuckSkin, Glad to hear you solved the problem! Thanks for posting back! Now, if I could just figure a way to make Elements 7 communicate with PPS PE9.
I am afraid you cannot use Perfect Effects 9 as a plug-in in Elements 7. If I remember it correctly, Perfect Effects 9 is compatible with only Elements 11 and above.
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