Pixelmator Crashing Issue Fixed in OS X 10.8.3

MacRumors · Mar 20, 2013, 05:09 PM

Back in December, the team behind Pixelmator posted a lengthy apology on their blog after a bug in OS X 10.8.2 would sometimes cause Macs to restart or the app to crash when intensively using the popular image editor.

It appears that the issue has now been resolved with the release of OS X 10.8.3 last week. From Pixelmator's blog:

Quote:

Since the release of the OS X 10.8.3 update last Thursday, we've been thoroughly testing Pixelmator on it. We can finally confirm that Pixelmator's biggest problem (caused by NVIDIA graphics card drivers) is now solved! For that, we owe a tremendous thanks to the guys at Apple and NVIDIA for listening to us and probably many other developers, and then doing something about it.

Go ahead, everyone, and download the OS X 10.8.3 update to your Macs!

Article Link: Pixelmator Crashing Issue Fixed in OS X 10.8.3

Jason Garza · Mar 20, 2013, 05:35 PM

Good to know I suppose.

Delorean2006 · Mar 20, 2013, 05:56 PM

But ever since I updated to 10.8.3 my 2010 MacBook Pro with the 330m gt graphics has been crashing at least once everyday time I use it

AgentElliot007 · Mar 20, 2013, 06:35 PM

10.8.3 has solved a lot of little bugs I've had for awhile, and thankfully a couple of these bigger, system-crashing ones. The most annoying one besides this Pixelmator issue though was on some late-2012 Mac Minis I recently installed at work. I've had some issues with certain types of printing causing the computers to crash, and that's since been resolved in 10.8.3. Oddly, or not, it only affected the late-2012 Macs running 10.8.2 as a 27" late-2012 iMac had the same issue while a 21.5" mid-2011 iMac worked fine.

fredou · Mar 20, 2013, 06:36 PM

now I know why my Mac was sometimes crashing... I thought it was a device plugged that had an incompatibility or faulty ram.

gatearray · Mar 20, 2013, 07:21 PM

great news, although my use of Pixelmator wasn't affected, waiting for the driver fix to solve this issue must have been torture for these devs!

coder12 · Mar 20, 2013, 07:41 PM

Great! I've been waiting for a fix for this bug. I guess I haven't noticed any issues since updating--it's nice to see that it's been solved.

Squilly · Mar 20, 2013, 07:44 PM

What's Pixelmator?

ECUpirate44 · Mar 20, 2013, 07:47 PM

Jeez wish I had seen this before...

Mr. Retrofire · Mar 20, 2013, 08:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Squilly

What's Pixelmator?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixelmator

Squilly · Mar 20, 2013, 08:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr. Retrofire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixelmator

Oh, like Photoshop.

chrfr · Mar 20, 2013, 09:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Squilly

Oh, like Photoshop.

Except it's $14.99.

I WAS the one · Mar 20, 2013, 11:48 PM

I stop using Adobe photoshop and everything adobe (my last suite was cs3 design premium) and now Pixelmator is my new Photoshop and to be honest it has been the best experience over Photoshop. I'm not kidding... This is my suite now: Pixelmator, iDraw, Swift Publisher and Flux 4 (every one of them available in the Mac App Store) my clients didn't know the change of software, my printshop either, and Still received works made in Photoshop to keep working on and deliver. Every app works incredibly good. Every app supports standard formats and every app can achieved what you are used to when you were a slave of a CS Expensive Nightmare.

I didn't get any crashes but I was wondering what was making my Mac restart now and then.... I was blaming a new external drive and now I know was Pixelmator! So far so good! Keep the good work guys!

JM-Prod · Mar 21, 2013, 03:11 AM

FCP X stopped crashing as well, it used to crash quite regularly with a GPU error report on our system.

technopimp · Mar 21, 2013, 10:30 AM

From my experience, Pixelmator is for the most part a piece of crap. It crashes (frequently) making me lose work (frequently) despite it's half-assed approach to saving stuff to iCloud (did it? didn't it? Who knows!).

They also moved a lot of stuff around in the menus with a recent update which have made it difficult to find things, and their only documentation is how-to videos which means I can't just go and reference "where is function x?" but i have to watch a voiced-over video for who knows how long hoping I can grab the one piece of information I need.

Combine that with the quirky way it sometimes does what you are asking it to do, and sometimes does...something completely different, I don't know it's worth the $15 (and certainly not the $30 I paid).

CrickettGrrrl · Mar 21, 2013, 10:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by technopimp

From my experience, Pixelmator is for the most part a piece of crap. It crashes (frequently) making me lose work (frequently) despite it's half-assed approach to saving stuff to iCloud (did it? didn't it? Who knows!).

They also moved a lot of stuff around in the menus with a recent update which have made it difficult to find things, and their only documentation is how-to videos which means I can't just go and reference "where is function x?" but i have to watch a voiced-over video for who knows how long hoping I can grab the one piece of information I need.

Combine that with the quirky way it sometimes does what you are asking it to do, and sometimes does...something completely different, I don't know it's worth the $15 (and certainly not the $30 I paid).

Top Menubar, under "Help" --written help information so you don't need to watch the site videos.

Also, you can usually get your questions answered relatively quickly on the following link:
http://support.pixelmator.com/viewforum.php?f=3

And there are terrific tutorials for Pixelmator on PXM-Tuts.com, Abduzeedo, IdeaVenue.com, TripletSisters.

reden · Mar 21, 2013, 11:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Squilly

What's Pixelmator?

I miss down-voting.

Squilly · Mar 21, 2013, 01:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by reden

I miss down-voting.

I don't miss people like you.

imurdaddy · Mar 21, 2013, 01:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Squilly

What's Pixelmator?

When Pixels get in on...

Yvan256 · Mar 21, 2013, 01:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Squilly

What's Pixelmator?

You know how a Terminator terminates people? Pixelmator does something similar: it pixelates them.

thekev · Mar 21, 2013, 02:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yvan256

You know how a Terminator terminates people? Pixelmator does something similar: it pixelates them.

Draw a mustache on me if you want to live

.

Squilly · Mar 21, 2013, 02:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yvan256

You know how a Terminator terminates people? Pixelmator does something similar: it pixelates them.

That would be adding noise... that's what it does?

vea1083 · Mar 21, 2013, 09:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Delorean2006

But ever since I updated to 10.8.3 my 2010 MacBook Pro with the 330m gt graphics has been crashing at least once everyday time I use it

Curiously, I too had a momentary graphics crash in my 2010 MacBook Pro with the 330m processor last tuesday. In my case the screen and keyboard seemed to become unresponsive for about 3-5 seconds before returning to normal. Since, then I have yet to experience a similar issue. I wonder if your issue was similar to mine.

Believe it or not ever since I heard pixelmator talking about a problem with the nvidia drivers in 10.8.2 and their software I was worried that a change in the graphics drivers would be instability to my Mac all for the sake of solving a compatibility issue from their software with Apple drivers. Needless to say, Apple and Nvidia always have been a love and hate relationship when it comes to Mac Drivers.

SoldOnApple · Mar 22, 2013, 07:15 AM

I've had a lot of success with pixlr.com. Usually when I need to photoshop, it's just some minor editing or masking I need to do, so free is better than whatever PS or Pixelmator costs.

JoeRito · Mar 24, 2013, 03:34 PM

Best software for the money on the planet... love Pixelmator

Mar 20, 2013, 07:41 PM	#7
coder12 macrumors 6502 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Fargo, ND: The greatest city on Earth.	Great! I've been waiting for a fix for this bug. I guess I haven't noticed any issues since updating--it's nice to see that it's been solved. __________________ Go Bison!
	1

Mar 20, 2013, 07:47 PM	#9
ECUpirate44 macrumors 603 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: NC	Jeez wish I had seen this before... __________________ 2012 RMBP 2.3/8/256. 16Gb iPhone 5 Black & Slate.
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Mar 20, 2013, 11:48 PM	#13
I WAS the one macrumors 6502 Join Date: May 2006	I stop using Adobe photoshop and everything adobe (my last suite was cs3 design premium) and now Pixelmator is my new Photoshop and to be honest it has been the best experience over Photoshop. I'm not kidding... This is my suite now: Pixelmator, iDraw, Swift Publisher and Flux 4 (every one of them available in the Mac App Store) my clients didn't know the change of software, my printshop either, and Still received works made in Photoshop to keep working on and deliver. Every app works incredibly good. Every app supports standard formats and every app can achieved what you are used to when you were a slave of a CS Expensive Nightmare. I didn't get any crashes but I was wondering what was making my Mac restart now and then.... I was blaming a new external drive and now I know was Pixelmator! So far so good! Keep the good work guys! __________________ If were a religion... We all were sinners right now.
	2

Mar 21, 2013, 10:30 AM	#15
technopimp macrumors 6502 Join Date: Aug 2009	From my experience, Pixelmator is for the most part a piece of crap. It crashes (frequently) making me lose work (frequently) despite it's half-assed approach to saving stuff to iCloud (did it? didn't it? Who knows!). They also moved a lot of stuff around in the menus with a recent update which have made it difficult to find things, and their only documentation is how-to videos which means I can't just go and reference "where is function x?" but i have to watch a voiced-over video for who knows how long hoping I can grab the one piece of information I need. Combine that with the quirky way it sometimes does what you are asking it to do, and sometimes does...something completely different, I don't know it's worth the $15 (and certainly not the $30 I paid). __________________ Yes I caved.
	0

Mar 24, 2013, 03:34 PM	#25
JoeRito macrumors regular Join Date: Apr 2012	Best software for the money on the planet... love Pixelmator __________________ 2011 MBP 15", 2013 iPad Mini, iPod Classic 160 gb, Galaxy S3, 92 lb Chocolate Lab
	1

Mar 20, 2013, 05:35 PM	#2
Jason Garza macrumors member Join Date: Jun 2012	Good to know I suppose.
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Mar 20, 2013, 05:56 PM	#3
Delorean2006 macrumors regular Join Date: Feb 2012	But ever since I updated to 10.8.3 my 2010 MacBook Pro with the 330m gt graphics has been crashing at least once everyday time I use it
	0

Mar 20, 2013, 06:35 PM	#4
AgentElliot007 macrumors regular Join Date: Mar 2010	10.8.3 has solved a lot of little bugs I've had for awhile, and thankfully a couple of these bigger, system-crashing ones. The most annoying one besides this Pixelmator issue though was on some late-2012 Mac Minis I recently installed at work. I've had some issues with certain types of printing causing the computers to crash, and that's since been resolved in 10.8.3. Oddly, or not, it only affected the late-2012 Macs running 10.8.2 as a 27" late-2012 iMac had the same issue while a 21.5" mid-2011 iMac worked fine.
	0

Mar 20, 2013, 06:36 PM	#5
fredou macrumors newbie Join Date: May 2011	now I know why my Mac was sometimes crashing... I thought it was a device plugged that had an incompatibility or faulty ram.
	0

Mar 20, 2013, 07:21 PM	#6
gatearray macrumors 6502a Join Date: Apr 2010	great news, although my use of Pixelmator wasn't affected, waiting for the driver fix to solve this issue must have been torture for these devs!
	2

Mar 20, 2013, 07:44 PM	#8
Squilly In Time-Out Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: PA	What's Pixelmator?
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Mar 21, 2013, 03:11 AM	#14
JM-Prod macrumors member Join Date: Apr 2011	FCP X stopped crashing as well, it used to crash quite regularly with a GPU error report on our system.
	1

Mar 22, 2013, 07:15 AM	#24
SoldOnApple macrumors member Join Date: Jul 2011	I've had a lot of success with pixlr.com. Usually when I need to photoshop, it's just some minor editing or masking I need to do, so free is better than whatever PS or Pixelmator costs.
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