ArtRage is becoming nearly unusable with Mac OS Sonoma on Intel.

[nekomata]

Yes! exactly this! I have a Mac mini Sonoma 14.3.1. Vitae crashes all the time. Artrage 6 is stable but I do have those glitches you're talking about. The brush lag and then if I resize the window or move the canvas its normal for a few brush strokes them bam back to lagging again. It's making it slow to work with. The dark patches disappear when the canvas or window is resized. I also get the imprints of some of the tools at times. Highly disappointing! I upgraded to Vitae thinking it would fix it but nope Vitae crashes! Its worse!

Hi Lea,

if you have other painting apps, does the brush lag issue happen with them as well?

if yes, are you on the very latest wacom driver build released specifically for sonoma?
you might need to install it and reset all tablet preferences to default ones, because wacom drivers are quite complicated and can be buggy, particularly with the current mac os.

for anything artrage related you're experiencing right now, unfortunately you'll have to wait for the patch. you might want to get in touch with the team (support link provided above), but it really is about waiting for the work to be finished, since you can't roll back to an older mac os on a freshly purchased mac, apple does not allow that.

[wb8979]

So, Apple released a minor update to Sonoma, 14.4.1. Apparently the initial 14.4 release cause many issues for Mac users, though reports only indicate issues with printers, USB hubs and Java stuff.

I'll do some testing with ArtRage Vitae to see if this update helps fix the crashes, though my expectations won't be too high.

[Jono]

Using an M1 Mac with v14.4.1, I'm often getting temporary shadowy brush trails when I move, for example, the oil brush over existing painted areas. I've taken a screenshot showing this. They do however disappear when I move the canvas.

[nekomata]

Using an M1 Mac with v14.4.1, I'm often getting temporary shadowy brush trails when I move, for example, the oil brush over existing painted areas. I've taken a screenshot showing this. They do however disappear when I move the canvas.

Jono,

someone else reported this issue earlier, and in their instance it was triggered by the default ICC profile supplied with a cintiq that for whatever reason caused rendering issues on mac os sonoma.

https://forums.artrage.com/showthrea...264#post543264 - here's the specific post with a fix for that;

if you don't use a cintiq, try plugging any .icc profile that is different from one supplied by apple or your screen manufacturer and see if it helps.

in this instance, I'm not sure if this should be fixed by apple, or by ambient design.

[Jono]

Thanks nekomata, apologies for not seeing the previous post about this. I do use a basic Cintiq 16 so I will definitely try one of those changes if I can.

As a non-professional Artrage user, for me it's only an annoyance rather than a showstopper. It doesn't happen over all colours, reds seem to be more prone, blues less so, but either way, a quick press on the spacebar and move with pointer clears the marks.

I've not experienced this issue with any other graphics software on the same Mac.