Rendering

I am trying out the free trial of FF to see if it will work for me. I work with images 3600 x 3600 and up. I am testing filters under "creative" such as paint HDRist and watercolor. The rendering is taking hours to complete.

I am also getting an error message but I know that this is a bug that FF is working on. (<class XFW::Kernel::StdException> bad allocation).

I am using a duel core processor, windows/vista. I am using FF stand alone. My question is: are there any settings that I can choose to speed things up or is this normal and should I expect it every time with this size file and this type of filter?

Thanks for any help.

Bobbi

Thanks for the reply SpaceRay.

I have been reading the forums for a couple of days now, so I know that Bad Allocation is a bug.

I also see in the forums that with some files and some filters FF runs slow, but what I can't find is why I can't get it to work at all.

I have been running a rendering all night and it is still going now, so obviously it is not going to work. I have tried three different filters and three different files with the same results. Each one receives the error message about 3/4 of the way through and after many hours of rendering they will not save.

I have PS CS5.5 64 bit so I understand that I can't us it as a plug in.

Thanks
Bobbi

Got the plug in to work on my CS5.5 and now it's not crashing. Still a bit slow to render, but it works so I don't mind. I also turned off anti aliasing and turned down the ram to 60%.
Bobbi

Skybase, the fact you're running it on Mac, I think, is the solution to the problem. As far as I understand, the bad allocation error is a windows only issue.
Then again, Mac version can't reliably run LUA scripts.

Nobody's perfect, eh?