Scott M.

Thanks Katie. That worked. It never occurred to me to piece together a staircase from two PIOs. Seems a bit clumsy, but it will work for my purposes. Cheers, Scott.

Is there a way to create a winder (not a landing) with the stair PIO in VW 9.5? I seem to remember that this was possible with VW 8 and even MC 7. Thanks, Scott.

Thanks. I'll try it in sections. Scott.

Ok... so here are the latest symptoms to report with this nagging problem: I tried forcing the OS to use 1028meg of virtual memory in an effort to solve the memory complaints and crashing. To a certain extent this worked; it no longer crashes. However, it seems to die a slow death: as the frames are written to the drive, the CPU usage declines, the System Idle Process rises (because VW is no longer doing anything), and the hard disk is continuously active (strange?). FWIW, it got to about frame 60 of a 1200 frame movie before CPU usage declined to about 3%. Thanks for any tips. Scott.

Hi Julien. I've tried a simple orbit movie with about 200 frames and a flythrough movie with about 1200 frames. Both crash after about 40 frames are written. The computer is a Dell Latitude C810 notebook, Pentium 3 spinning at 1133mhz with 256 meg of RAM. Virtual memory is set to minimum of 382mb (recommended) and maximum of 1028mb. Here are some more details that I watched in the Task Manager: - While the animation is building, physical memory available cycles up and down from around 4000K to 15000K. I suspect that this is the result of frames being rendered, written to the drive, and then memory is reclaimed. - Up until the crash, CPU usage is almost always 100%. - Memory usage starts at around 300,000K (out of 628640K) and steadily climbs upward. - The crash consistently occurs when approximately 3.5 meg of movie has been written to the drive. Thanks for your help. Scott. PS: I'm currently experimenting with setting the minimum virtual memory higher. Will report back ASAP.

I'm consistently getting a message from Windows 2000 during a QuickTime movie render. It says "Your system is low on virtual memory. Windows is increasing the size....blah blah blah" At this point the hard disk light shows continuous activity, but the movie file stops growing and the machine basically hangs. Setup: VW 9.5.2, Latest QuickTime with all updates, Windows 2000 with all updates Any thoughts? Much thanks, Scott.