Hm... Emboldened by this discussion I tried to install any of my collection of Corel Painter disks on my Windows 7 installation. None would start. Items tried range from a ten year old Corel Painter Essentials disk to a Corel Painter X trial -- we're now at Corel Painter XII, btw.
We can blame Corel, of course... Their products have never had a reputation for being solid, well-built applications, but then, wasn't the contention in this thread that on Windows that's not necessary, since Windows keeps everything running through amazing binary compability through the ages?
Posted Jan 29, 2012 16:12 UTC (Sun) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
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Have you tried to run setup in "Windows XP" compatibility mode? Corel Painter 11 works fine. You can find and start setup.exe directly. In general the appropriate help page can help you.
AFAICS from forum posts Corel Painter Essentials works fine with Windows 7... with the exception that it insists in scanning the whole system drive at each program start. Which is sloow as you can guess (45min startup time is not unheard of).
Yes, Windows tries to stay compatible very hard - but it can not fix all the bugs in all the programs.