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Vista 64 bit and PWP5
Posted: May 28th, 2009, 3:45 am
by Simon Gulliver
Does anyone have experience of running PWP5 on Vista 64 bit?
Our XP pc is dying and we need a new machine soon.
What would be a good spec for the new PC?
Thanks
Re: Vista 64 bit and PWP5
Posted: May 28th, 2009, 6:35 am
by jsachs
It works well with Vista 64-bit (but still runs as a 32-bit application and thus does not take advantage of the larger available address space potentially available).
Re: Vista 64 bit and PWP5
Posted: May 28th, 2009, 8:13 am
by den
Jonathan...
Somewhat related to Simon's OP... would you recommend a quad-core processer?
I have an AMD Athlon64x2 6000+ processer and 32bit Vista, that takes approx. 2 minutes for the BilateralSharpen transform to compute a 'mean image' for a 3456x2314 pixel image when the Blur Radius is set to maximum [20].
I have been experimenting with this transform as a portrait 'skin smoother' and the max blur setting seems to be one of the settings that provides the best results. [I will soon place a workflow in the TIPs section which suggests determining initial settings with a 1:1 skin image area crop that speeds up the transform settings selections, then change the Input image to the full sized one.]
Re: Vista 64 bit and PWP5
Posted: May 28th, 2009, 8:42 am
by jsachs
Currently the only transformation that uses multiple cores is bilateral sharpen. We are looking at supporting multiple cores across more transformations for future versions.
Re: Vista 64 bit and PWP5
Posted: May 28th, 2009, 10:10 am
by ksinkel
In addition to multi-tasking in Sharpen, Picture Window also makes use of additional cores in browse, history and workflow, all of which use background processes.
Kiril
Re: Vista 64 bit and PWP5
Posted: May 29th, 2009, 11:56 am
by kkopchynski
Simon: I Have been using PWP 5 on Vista 64 since 5 came out and it works fine for what I have done so far. You will need to ask the same question of other software you use and especially your hardware drivers.
Den: I also have a Quad core, although I got that for other reasons (a 3D game), not to enhance PWP functioning. I had a 3072x2048 image open in PWP and I tried bilateral sharpen. It took a minute to generate a preview at radius 20. Sometimes the bar would move smoothly for the minute, sometimes the bar would go about a quarter of the way, then get the Vista hourglass and 'not responding" in the title bar, but it would still finish in a minute.
Simon again: This is the first I have tried bilateral sharpen. I'm not sure if this behavior qualifies as "works fine". It did finish, but seeing an error state, even temporarily, doesn't seem optimal.
Kevin
Re: Vista 64 bit and PWP5
Posted: May 29th, 2009, 12:11 pm
by den
Kevin...
The 'not responding' after only a partial progress dialog is normal for me too. Since I have a dual core and you a quad-core, I would expect your compute 'mean image' time to be about half which it appears to be for approx. the same pixel dimensions.
Since the transform completes, I have learned to ignore the 'not responding' status. If the 'task manager' is on the performance tab, I can see that the CPU is at 100% and hear the AMD processer fan ramp up.... so things are working inspite the program screen indications.