Mask Pro 4.1 Runs Slow

I watched a tutorial on this and enjoyed it, so I bought it.
I am running Vista and CS5.
In the video it shows how fast he brushes.
BUT, when I do it, it runs so slow its unbearable.
Keeps telling me, Calculating Mask.
Have I selected too many colors to keep and drop?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

I've never used the software myself, but OnOne is a pretty established company -- did you try their support forum?

http://support.ononeso​ftware.com/forums/

thats next....thanks

What are the specs for your computer? I've used it and had a lot of colors selected and it's relatively smooth - not instant but not unbearably slow the way you describe.

My system is an i7-860 with 8gb RAM, and Win7x64.

OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium
Version 6.0.6000 Build 6000
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name SHAWN-PC
System Manufacturer HP-Pavilion
System Model GC670AAR-ABA a6120n
System Type X86-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4400 @ 2.00GHz, 1000 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 5.17, 4/20/2007
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\s​ystem32
Boot Device \Device\Harddis​kVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6000.16407"
Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time
Total Physical Memory 2,045.87 MB
Available Physical Memory 1.03 GB
Total Virtual Memory 4.21 GB
Available Virtual Memory 2.91 GB

It looks like you would benefit from a boost of RAM -- on a 32 bit system you max out a bit under 3GB, so if you put in 3 or 4 GB (depending on your motherboard specs) you should see a real increase of performance.

Thanks Tony

Sure, Shawn! I see you have a 7D, and yeah, with a hi-res body like that your system can really strain, so give it as much as you can give!

If you can swing it, upgrade to Windows 7 64-bit, and get at least 4gb of RAM total, 6-8 would be even better.

A step up from there would be to get an SSD drive to put the operating system and all your programs on.

yup, more computing HP needed. I have MaskPro on my Win 7 64 bit system (I5-750), 8 GB, and it purrs. Don't forget that your video card will greatly affect how your system is able to paint the image on your screen. I got 8 MB on my card.

Adobe Photoshop Version: 11.0.2 (11.0.2x20100514 [20100514.r.591 2010/05/14:02:00:00 cutoff; r branch])
Operating System: Windows NT
Version: 6.1
System architecture: Intel CPU Family:6, Model:14, Stepping:5 with MMX, SSE Integer, SSE FP, SSE2
Physical processor count: 4
Processor speed: 2660 MHz
Video Card Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
Video Card Renderer: GeForce GTS 240/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL Drawing: Enabled.
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240
Video Mode: 1920 x 1080 x 4294967296 colors
Video Card Driver: nvd3dumx.dll,nvwgf2umx​.dll,nvwgf2umx.dll,nvd​3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Driver Version: 8.17.11.9745
Built-in memory: 8151 MB
Free memory: 6462 MB
Memory available to Photoshop: 3255 MB
Memory used by Photoshop: 60 %
Image cache levels: 4
Serial number: 92628392251104103208
Application folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\
Temporary file path: C:\Users\Dad\AppData\L​ocal\Temp\
Photoshop scratch has async I/O enabled
Scratch volume(s):
Startup, 916.8G, 779.7G free
Primary Plug-ins folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\Plug-ins\
Additional Plug-ins folder: not set

Thanks guys.
I would like to put win 7 but dont want to lose WinMail.
Any suggestions?

I don't use WinMail but I imagine you could still run it in 32-bit emulation mode.

http://windows.microso​ft.com …requently-asked-questions