>>Sleepingbeautiie - [email protected] wrote: >>>> On Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:14:27 +0100, Sleepingbeautiie wrote: >>> >>>>> And, yeah - that stuff's basically gone away since I've re-installed it >>>>> again, but now it says it has to do something with the GIMP shortcut in >>>>> my "bin" folder, so I thought 'Oh, okay...' and clicked on the GIMP 2.8 >>>>> icon for it to load from there.. but it gave me the same error, the one >>>>> that I just mentioned, and it always has something to do with >>>>> "terminating in an unusual way", 'thanks' to Runtime. I'm looking through >>>>> all my folders now, but there doesn't seem to be a problem. >>> >>>> Is your Windows set to use 16-bit colour mode? There's a known problem with >>>> GTK+ if that's the case - change Windows to 32-bit colours. >>> >>> How do you do that? I mean, do I go to control panel? I really don't know >>> what the problem is, but if it helps I use Windows Vista/desktop.
>>Yes; from Windows Vista Control Panel: >>- from default view: "Adjust screen resolution" (under the "Appearance >>and Personalization" section) or >>- from classic view: "Personalization" then "Display Settings" >>Either will bring up the "Display Settings" where you can set the colour >>depth from the drop-down under "Colors". If you have multiple monitors, >>you might need to set it separately for each one. >>After click "Apply" or "OK" to apply changes, you'll need to click "Yes" >>before the timer expired when prompted for whether to keep the new >>settings. If that seems a bit odd, there is a sensible reason - changing >>display settings incorrectly can prevent anything from being displayed >>at all, making it difficult to change them back, so if the screen does >>go blank or scrambled you just need to wait 15 seconds for the timer to >>expire and it should go back to how it was before. >>Mark. >All right, thanks, I'll try that when I get the time; if it doesn't work, I'll >come back and see if there's any other kinda solution. It didn't work. The first message I'm always receiving now is "(gimp-2.8.exe:2408):GLiB-ERROR**: gmem.c: 165: failed to allocate 17660160 bytes", and THEN it does the whole "Windows Visual C++ Library" thing. Any ideas? -- Sleepingbeautiie (via gimpusers.com) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
