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I think metacreations has written more programs that are suffering from exactly the same "not enough memory" problem as described here. 

"Poser 4" and "Painter 5" and "Painter 6" have the same issue as Painter Classic.
Therefore I wrote a variant of the fix for Painter Classic that could fool any executable into thinking the system has 512Mb of memory (as long as the executable fetches that data through "GlobalMemoryStatus"

I would like to know if the fix works for other programs, so please leave a note below if you find another product not mentioned on this page.

Warning: A more recent fix has been made available ... check the main page under development projects

You can download the zip file here.

If this works for you and you find it worthwhile, feel free to donate something for it using Paypal or your credit card. Just to give you an idea, most people donate between 5 and 10 USD, 4 and 8 Euro or 700 and 1400 Yen.

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Unzip the zip file in the installation directory of the program you wish to "fix".  The zip file contains two files "New_PClassic.exe" and "intercept.dll"

You will have to rename the executable "New_PClassic.exe" to make it work for the metacreations product you wish to fix.

The format of the exe filename is "<PREFIX>_<TARGET>.exe" where

• PREFIX is anything you wish to name it (just make sure it doesn't contain an '_' character).  I just used "New" as a prefix, but you can replace that with "whatever you like".
• TARGET is the program that needs to be fixed (this is the executable as defined in the shortcut usually).  For Painter Classic, this is PClassic (because you normally execute PClassic.exe through the shortcut)

For example: If the executable name is "Poser4.exe", you have to rename "New_PClassic.exe" to "New_Poser4.exe".

Now double click your "New_<....>.exe" and see if it works!

If it does work, please check if this fix has been reported to work below.  If you are the first to try it, please drop me an email (dev at depeuter "." org) and provide the details so I can complete the table below.

These are the programs that this fix have been reported to work with.  The executable name is provided for your information to help you figure out what to rename the New_PClassic.exe in the zip file to.  For example, for Poser you have to rename New_PClassic.exe to New_Poser.exe (because the executable name of Poser is Poser.exe)

 

Program	Progam Version	Rename Executable To
Painter Classic	1	New_PClassic.exe
Painter Classic	2	NO FIX IS NEEDED (?)
Painter	4	New_PNT4_32.exe
Painter	5, 5.5	New_Painter5.exe
Painter	6.1	New_Painter61.exe
Painter Classic	1 (Japanese)	New_PClassicJ.exe
Poser	3, 4	New_Poser.exe

 

For the Painter Classic program, I went through the exercise of providing a binary patch, however, providing a generic binary patch will be very difficult, unless the patch is verified to work and fix the correct problem in every version of the program it is patching.

Anyway, I think the patch provided above will be a sufficient workaround for being able to run you programs  ... and that's what it's all about.

On the other hand, I have a feeling the binary patching of ASI32_12.dll will work just the same for all versions of Painter and Poser ... so for the brave, try to apply the binary patch as explained on the Painter Classic fix page.

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Hi, I am an old Painter user, and have gotten the out of memory message. I read there is no fix needed for Painter 2, which I have. In fact I think it's the best version. (also have Painter 3 and the little version that comes with a Wacom tablet) I tried to load ver2 and the Wacom one (the Wacom one loaded but gave me the out of memory message) on my new computer with Vista and got a message it could not read the disk. The same thing happened when I tried to load Photoshop.

The drive does work, I opened a document from the drive. What a royal pain this is. I\'ve got thousands of dollars of programs I can\'t load.

I have a CalComp Drawing Board II (12\'X12\") I\'m going to try to get a driver loaded for, but if Painter can\'t be loaded, there is no point. I really don\'t want to have to pay almost $400 to purchase a new version of a program I love and already have.

Anyone have any idea what the problem is, or how it can be resolved.

I had a cd-rom copy of poser3 that installed fine on windows98.
With your patch , I was able to port Poser3 from windows98 to windowsXP. Otherwise I got the out of memory warning and couldn't even register the copy.
But your .exe is signaled as a trojan by Norton antivirus .
There is something rotten in computers world !

Hi,

the patch works fine on Poser 3 and WinXP SP3, but Avira say that
New_PClassic.exe is a virus (BDS/Agent pap).

corel artdabbler 2.1 would result in "not enough memory" upon opening, and when trying top install the above fix still resulted in not enough memory, that is until uninstalling artdab and re-installing.
now it works, thank you

I installed the patch for Painter5.5 but got this error message:
Error: Couldn\'t back up painter5.exe to painter5.exe~: 5
Error: Couldn\'t install painter5.exe# as painter5.exe: 183

Any suggestions?

Hello,

I tried to open the file to fix my Painter5 program and got this message:
C:\\DOCUME~1\\CRAIGC~1\\LOCALS~1\\Temp\\3sJHlYNo.zip.part could not be saved, because the source file could not be read.

What do you suggest I do.

Craig

Today McAfee deleted new_pclassic.exe as a generic backdoor trojan. I figured it was a false positive so I came here to see if others had the same problem, and if so, what was suggested. I applied the newer patch and that seems to be just fine.

Today McAfee flagged new_pclassic.exe as a generic backdoor trojan. I figured it was a false positive and came here to see if others had run into the same problem and what was suggested. I applied the newer fix instead, which seems fine.

Like I\'ve said before, You are a life saver, youy patch help keep Art Dabbler going for the last several years when I upgraded to a computer with more than a Gig of Ram. I did contribute to your PayPal donation account.
Just recently both AVG 8 Free and Corporate Norton was deleting without asking saying the the Art Dabbler fix was a Trojan Horse Backdoor Agent.WRV
I couldn\'t believe it so I disabled anti-virus and reinstalled the fix. Everytime I started AV again it would delete it.
Of course since Corel bought then buried Art Dabbler, there is no support from them.
I finally figured out how to install the latest fix and IT WORKED! No anti-virus kicking out and Art Dabble is working again. Thanks

PS: I\'ve tried other programs, One Note, many art programs, but none I\'ve found will let you create a 100 blank page flip chart to give notes on to students. I can do it with Adobe Acrobat by converting a 100 page blank Word doc to Adobe but it\'s just not the same smoothness in writing. Does anyone else use a program to give notes on in class like I do?

oops...I tried the newest fix, not the one on this page