Some sort of disaster

[Arturo_Pereira]

Hi guys
Well, sort of. I´ve been painting NR2003 cars for some years now, all for private use or by request to friends. To do this, I´ve been using PaintShopPro 9 and in the last year PSP X2.
The problem came when, about 3 weeks ago, I updated the drivers of my graphics cars, an Nvidia 9800GTX, to the latest original Nvidia ones.
Since then PSP9 and X2 refused to run. I checked Corel Corp. site and all I could find related with this was a reference to the fact that both programs had compatibility problems with Nvidia drivers and OpenGL.
So, I got Photoshop CS4 Extented which works ok. THe problem is it does not read pspimage files and so I had to use PSP9 installed in my daughter´s PC to convert all PSP files to PSD format, loosing lots of fine details in the meantime. However, I have kept the original psp files just in case.

So, anybody knows a way to convert PSP files to PSD without loosing vector graphics layers ? I have a bit more than 2,000 files painted, plus homemade logos, and the most affected are the cars painted.

About the installation of drivers, I´ve always used the same procedure:
1. uninstall using Windows Control Panel;
2. reboot:
3. use of DriverCleanerPro to clean all old files related to the old drivers;
4. installation of the new drivers:
5. reboot and that´s it.

Any suggestion will be more than welcome and thanks in advance !!

 

[Snoopy0626]

Have you try uninstalling the drives and then reinstall the older drives.

The run the new drives over the top I have not had a problem with my Nvidia card and paint shop pro x / x1 / x2

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[Arturo_Pereira]

Have you try uninstalling the drives and then reinstall the older drives.

The run the new drives over the top I have not had a problem with my Nvidia card and paint shop pro x / x1 / x2

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Hi
Thank you for your answer !!

Yes, I tried installing oldest drivers I have here, 178.24, with no positive results. It is weird that both software worked ok till I made the latest updated. It seems I removed some critical file or files for PSPs.
I knew about that page at Corel Corp. site. That was the one that I had found when I got into troubles and, imo, it was not of much help.
I will see which drivers were the first to support the 9800GTX grahics card and will try installing them though I´ve seen at some forums over the INternet that people with drivers with versions higher than 80.xx were already having these same problems.
What really pissed me off is that I always buy legal software and that, in so many years, nobody at Corel Corp made a single patch to solve this compatibility problem

 

[Kenny Baum]

photoshop cannot open psp files... (i don't know if there is a plug in or not) I know when i switched to photoshop from psp7 i had to covert all my stuff in psp before i moved to psd.

 

[Arturo_Pereira]

photoshop cannot open psp files... (i don't know if there is a plug in or not) I know when i switched to photoshop from psp7 i had to covert all my stuff in psp before i moved to psd.

That is right, and also part of the disaster. PSP9 has a batch feature that lets you convert lots of files to and from PSP format, and also to and from PSD format, all with a couple of clicks, but it certainly has some limitations, or undesired effects.