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The Notebook China Syndrome
I have two of next weeks three comics written, penciled, inked and scanned and I just have to color and letter them. I plan on doing my penciling and inking on every Monday, Wednesday and Friday then doing the lettering and colors on the weekends.
I am a ball of frustration right about now. You see I have been trying to color a comic in Painter 7 but my note book keeps overheating and going into emergency shut down. There are no error messages or warnings it just goes right to God-damn off as soon as I try to make a simple stroke with my Wacom tablet.
I am pretty let down by this because I have not used painter since version 4 or so but I started using it at version 1.0 on the Mac in high school. I think that it is the finest computer paint program in the entire world and I am rather pissed to run into problems like this. Granted it is not cool in my apartment but I am frustrated to have a great software tool to color my comic giving me such strife. The entire ordeal is making me want to buy a new notebook or a desktop PC with a big freaking heat sink and cooling system.
I have heard people running into problems with their notebooks like this but this is the first time that I have had serious issues like this.
Ah well I have not had problems in Photoshop and I will try to color my comic in GIMP 2.0 or good old Photoshop but I am still ticked at my notebook having an allergic reaction to some serious use with Painter
I also just wanted to say that turkey-flavored tofu loaf is actually really good tasting when you bake it.
Jake at July 2, 2004 
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What you need to do is get a notebook that is always invincible. Or at least take the one you have and adjust it to normal.
Posted by: BBQ at July 2, 2004 2:05 AM
My notebook is terrible in this respect. I cant play games that are really graphics intensive (Myst for example, yet Red Alert 2 goes fine) without my computer blue screening and shutting down.
I have similar problems in Photoshop when I try to do too much at once, and playing video files is a never ending nightmare, I never know when my computers going to restart. I might get an hour watched, or I might get 5 minutes.
I've put it down to crappy ventilation, and possibly an underpowered PSU. Compaq doesnt seem to know whats going on, when I contacted customer support I got told to download the latest drivers, a run of the mill answer if ever I saw one.
Posted by: Andrew at July 2, 2004 1:06 PM
Alienware!
There is no compromise with notebooks. You can either have power or you can have battery life. With my new alienware I get both. 3 Hours of battery life and the power to spare for GFX. The old green one was great but it had terrible battery life (about an hour and a half)...
You might be on the ball with a descent desktop system because they are really cheap.
Maybe your wacom tablet is to blame. Try using other tools for awhile. Happy fourth of July everyone!
Posted by: Pete at July 2, 2004 11:29 PM
Have you checked the Task Manager for CPU usage? Seems to me that Painter is doing something (windows) illegal and slurping up all your CPU-time, which causes it to overheat.
Posted by: Berklee at July 3, 2004 1:49 AM
