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I think there's something up with my copy of Paint Tool Sai, once in a while it'll do this. It doesn't save like this (this is just a screencap), but it's pretty neat and I always get excited when it happens, I can't figure out what the trigger is
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That's... odd. What version of SAI are you running? I'm using 1.1 and have not seen that particular... effect It looks like memory corruption, but the block artifacts are interesting. Does SAI continue to operate normally, except for the image looking like that? And you did say it saves normally, right?
Hmm. Could be the display buffers are getting corrupted maybe? If you save a second time is it still ok? If so then, yeah, probably display buffers getting corrupted. Not sure what to do about something like that other than make sure you're running the latest drivers for your video card.
Yes, excellent advice! I believe the Windows 7 and Windows 8 CDs have a mem-test utility on them. It could just be corruption of the display memory, which would explain why the image is OK if you save it after you see this corruption (I wouldn't try it on a production image though!).
It happens if SAI runs out of memory at saving, and Windows doesn't flush out the remaining memory that SAI used while saving -- you'd get that pixellated mess, but as long it doesn't crash at saving, then that pixellated effect would become permanent, thus your *.sai/psd file would be corrupted.
Like Ratchet says, it's a memory issue. It usually happens to me if I save and then try to do something else while it's saving [since I have more memory than SAI even recognizes].
If you undo right after it happens, it goes back to normal and then you can redo and save it again. Mine actually DO save corrupted like this sometimes rather than normally like you said yours do!
If you undo right after it happens, it goes back to normal and then you can redo and save it again. Mine actually DO save corrupted like this sometimes rather than normally like you said yours do!
That's just the anti-piracy policy that corporations have been shipping with their products. It periodically scrambles and deletes files from your computer, just in case you might be running a pirated copy of their software. And if you're not, it still does it anyway to scare you into never downloading things illegally.
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