Drawing failed????

Sometimes when I look at photos in microsoft picture viewer I get a "drawing failed" error.. They only do this after I have manipulated the photos somehow in PS. Whats going on? They don't do it all the time and most of the time I can go forward or back in the slideshow and come back to the particular photo and it will show up fine.. ??

Does everyone use the microsoft picture viewer to quickly look at pics, or show family, or should I be using something else for that?

Are you talking about jpeg files, or some other format?

Yes, only jpegs.

anyone?

seems to be sort of a common problem with windows--I did a quick google on "drawing failed" and was very surprised!

I get this as well sometimes, although what's strange is the pictures comes up in thumbnail preview in explorer fine. Never got to the bottom of it myself!

I get this once in awhile when viewing large JPGs and the viewer is full screen.
At this point I kick myself for opening the built in view to begin with and pop open Fast stone. No idea what exactly causes the problem, but I can confirm you aren't the only one.

Happens to me all the time.. I usually just retry and it works. It's a pain though for sure.

Sere81 wrote in post #6045926
Sometimes when I look at photos in microsoft picture viewer I get a "drawing failed" error.. They only do this after I have manipulated the photos somehow in PS. Whats going on? They don't do it all the time and most of the time I can go forward or back in the slideshow and come back to the particular photo and it will show up fine.. ??

What sort of spec is your computer?

I have seen it happen on an older PC that simply didn't have enough grunt to open a very large image.

compaq persario 1100mhz and 1gig ram. I'm running xp with sp3

Moppie wrote in post #6054845
What sort of spec is your computer?

I have seen it happen on an older PC that simply didn't have enough grunt to open a very large image.

I'd confirm that, for my computer at least. Several years old, and it could be why I have this problem as well. I'm hoping to upgrade in the next few months, but for now I'm stuck.

Sere81 wrote in post #6057737
compaq persario 1100mhz and 1gig ram. I'm running xp with sp3

If your trying to open lots of high res JPEG's then I can see that causing a problem.
You have to remember that when that sort of spec level was cutting edge, so was a 4MP camera, but most of the digital images being used were 1MP or less.