painter classic says low memory when i have 1gb ddr ram 2

Painter WILL NOT recognize more than 512 mb of ram.

This is a problem that I am having, too. My machine had a 128 RAM and we added a 512. Now I am hitting a RAM wall, probably after the 128 capacity is full. Is there any way to circumvent this? I have work to do and this is beginning to get me really ticked off!

Just upgraded hardware with evidently too much ram. Has anyone found a solution other than painter 9 or removing ram?

I had the same problem and wrote a "fix" for it.
I posted it on my website (with not a lot of content for now)

go to to read about how I was able to fix it without having to remove memory or change the pagefile settings

Thanks much for the fix as I have missed having Painter on my new system! I would prefer to install Painter 5 rather than go back to Classic, so does anyone know if gdepeute's fix for Classic would work 'as is' for Painter 5? I do not know enough about Windows to check this out for myself.

The fix I posted will work for Painter 5, if
1) Painter 5 has the same "not enough memory" problem (don't have it so I can't verify)
2) Painter 5 has the same executable name (PClassic.exe) -- if not, you can always try to rename the Painter 5 executable to PClassic.exe and cross your fingers when you run NewPClassic.exe (it will work if Painter 5 has the same problem)

If the above doesn't work, you could always check if the "binary patch" helps (patching ASI32_12.dll in the painter install directory ... that is, if such file exists)
I added some info about that on at the bottom of the page about the fix.

Let us know if it works for Painter 5 too, I'm interested to find out.

Cheers,
-- Geert

thanks for this patch it works fine and is really usefull
i currently have rsi so i cant really try out the program
which is a bummer
thanks again

Just for my information ... could you tell me the following:
1) what the filename (the .exe) file is for Painter 5 (I suppose it is on PClassic.exe). That way I can update the information for others to come.
2) If you tested the binary patch or the executable patch (the zip file)

Thanks for letting me know

I dug out the Painter 5 CD and just now installed it. It does give the "not enough memory to run" message, and the name of the executable is Painter5.exe. It will be a few days before I have time to try the fix(es), but after I do I will post what happened.