Customize Performance

Memory Preferences

You can change the percentage of memory usage dedicated to Artweaver, which is set to 75% by default. You can dedicate as much as 100% of memory to Artweaver. The lowest percentage you can choose is 10%. You can also choose the scratch disk that Artweaver uses to store its temporary file and to access virtual memory.

Info This feature is only available in Plus version.

Performance preferences

Preferences Performance.

To set memory usage

  • Choose Edit menu -> Preferences -> Performance
  • Type a number in the Memory usage box

To choose a scratch disk

  • Choose Edit menu -> Preferences -> Performance
  • Click on the ... button besides the Temp directory field
  • In the Search folder dialog box, choose a drive / folder
  • Click on OK

Undo Preferences

Multiple Undo allows you to undo and redo up to 100 levels of changes. Artweaver sets 40 levels as the default.

Multiple Undo can use a significant amount of memory. If you perform multiple operations on the entire image, the whole image must be saved for each Undo step.

To set Undo levels

  • Choose Edit menu -> Preferences -> Performance
  • Enter a number between 1 and 100 in the History states box