Gimp doesn't work on my computer. Help! [Solved]

[Pananacakes]

I had high hopes that the compatibility options would help, Redrobes, but nope. Thanks for the suggestion though.

johnvanvliet, my card is a Radeon R9 200 series. 290x, if I remember right. I didn't mean ppi. I meant the width of my screen space in pixels. I meant to say width of 1920, not 1080. Anyhow 3200 is the right number. 3200x1800.

[Pananacakes]

Gimp starts up looking like this:

gimp-start.png

Notice how there are only two widely spaced letters where the messages should be, and how awful the p looks.

[johnvanvliet]

try this
go to
Program Files/GIMP 2/etc/gimp/2.0/
and rename "sessionrc" to "sessionrc.off"

and restart gimp

[Pananacakes]

Thanks but renaming sessionrc didn't help.

[johnvanvliet]

then my last guess would be the radeon card driver

is this the one that windows update installed
or did you grab the driver from the AMD website
http://support.amd.com/en-us/download

Microsoft is known for messing up OpenGL in drivers

the current gimp is mostly using GEGL and not gtk for most things

[Pananacakes]

I found the answer. Gimp's not compatible with gdipp font renderer. I put Gimp in gdipp's exclusion list and voila it works. Now if only Gimp would work with 16 bit images...

Thanks. Looking around in Gimp's etc dir gave me the idea.

Relabel this thread [Solved].

[Redrobes]

Resolution has a dual meaning and its confusing. You can use it for the pixel size or the dpi / ppi.

Never heard of GDIPP but its good to know about that and glad you discovered that was the issue.

I believe gimp does work with 16bit images but if it doesnt then imagemagick definitely will.
(Gimp is supposed to have 16bit per channel from 2.1 and its on 2.8 or 2.9 now so it should have it).

And ill mark this one solved.

[johnvanvliet]

the development version of gimp works with 16 and 32 bit image depth
16 unsigned and 32 bit float

krita also can work with 16 and 32 bit images
and so can Nip2
and imagemagick Q16 and Q32

[Pananacakes]

Thank you for that tip johnvanvliet, and for mentioning krita because I haven't heard of it before. It's been a long time since I've had the pleasure of using KDE.

[johnvanvliet]

krita also runs on apple and windows as well as linux OS's

i try to use software that is NOT locked into one operating system