The Gimp..so SLOW..Help!

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Does anybody else find this?

The Gimp takes a full 2 minutes to load, and places a huge load on the PC. Everything takes forever. Running the fuzzy borders plug in makes the PC virtually roll over and die, but any action seems to suck processing power out of the thing. Is this normal?

Am running Windows XP (SP3) with about 30% of a 60GB hard drive free. I have offloaded all my files onto an external 600GB hard disk and run a defrag, so the PC essentially carries the programmes and little else.

Advice would be appreciated.
 
try: right click on My Computer> properties

or I think its also found on : control panel>system

but I could be getting confused with switching between XP & vista
 
I have a 1.40GHz proccesor on my laptop and Gimp runs fine! Maybe it's down to ram? I have almost 4x what you are running!
 
RAM is likely to be the problem, 512k is quite minimal

but what else are you running?
exit everything that is unnecessary, include anything running in the bottom right corner that you dont need.
Also I've heard rumour that XP loads everything on your desktop into memory. So if you have stored any data on the desktop it will eat your memory.
 
More RAM!

I've got a 1.6 GHz duel core with 1Gig of RAM netbook that runs The GIMP fine and I'm dealing with 14 + Mp images (It's not my main computer).
 
Are you loading a lot of brushes too?

I found that ate loads of memory and time...

To resolve, make a gimpbrush folder and move the ones you need in when you need them - there is a brush refresh button to pick them up when you've put them in...


Although today Gimp crashed twice on editting (unusual) via vista... windows asked if I wanted it to search for a solution, but it closes itself and doesn't give one... ever :)

hope you get it working.
 
I wouldnt attempt to run windows on a machine with only 512mb of memory. It is fairly cheap to upgrade and will make a huge difference.
 
What you could do is rename your GIMP profile folder to something else. If you start the GIMP afterwards, it'll create its profile anew.
If it's still slow for you, check again whether it's really the GIMP in task manager.
Also, doing the usual Windows maintenance is likely to help the system overall: clean up the temporary files, clean Internet Explorer temporary files, defragment your hard drive.
Check whether your antivirus isn't playing any jokes on you (NOD32 v. 3 and 4 does this sometimes).
 
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