Tom Klaber Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 (edited) I am crashing at an ungodly rate. 2 an hour to once every 15 min. Really regretting the upgrade. I understand that this is a complicated program, but I feel as if it should be more stable. Edited October 3, 2012 by Tom Klaber Quote Link to comment
Tom Klaber Posted October 3, 2012 Author Share Posted October 3, 2012 Other people in the office are experiencing it too. Seems especially fragile when rendering and trying to do anything else. This is beta BS. Not acceptable for a major release. Quote Link to comment
VincentCuclair Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 (edited) Don't worry Tom, that sounds about right, it becomes fairly stable by SP2...... :grin: My general rule is wait with upgrading (at least don't start new projects) until SP2, this year I am actually following my own advice. Edited October 3, 2012 by Vincent C Quote Link to comment
Tom Klaber Posted October 3, 2012 Author Share Posted October 3, 2012 You are a wise man. I have learned my lesson. Now I wonder if it is too late to roll back to 2012. Quote Link to comment
Kizza Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 This is really sad to hear. I downloaded 2013 trial and was about to install then I read this thread. Afraid now to install 2013 in case the install affects my stable 2012 install. Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 Tom I'm either extremely lucky or you are extremely unlucky because I am not having any crash problems at all with Vw 2013. My experience is that it is stable and good. Quote Link to comment
VincentCuclair Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 I have 2013 Evaluation installed and this has no effect (and shouldn't) on my 2012, what i'm saying is that every release since v12 is very Beta until SP2. My experiece at least. Quote Link to comment
Tom Klaber Posted October 4, 2012 Author Share Posted October 4, 2012 Kizza, my install has not affected the performance of 2012. Because they run as separate programs, I do not think you need worry about 2013 infecting 2012 with its glitches. I would like to say that I am unlucky or that it is a local problem, but it is happening to other members of my office. It could be we are sharing a configuration that is causing the problem. We are all running 10.6.8 - we have not updated to Mountain Lion. I have found that even simply in 2D I get crashes for "no reason" - to say that they do not follow any action, but simply occur while navigating around a document or clicking back to a document. I have moved rendering back to 2012 for the time being. Quote Link to comment
beanus Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 Mike what's the spec of the computer you run vectorworks on, I use v2013 on two computers and it crashes on both and in some cases it won't open v2012 files Quote Link to comment
VincentCuclair Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 (edited) I have found that even simply in 2D I get crashes for "no reason" - to say that they do not follow any action, but simply occur while navigating around a document or clicking back to a document. Again that sounds historically correct, frustratingly enough, part of the reason I posted this once upon a time: http://techboard.vectorworks.net/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=31071&Number=152590#Post152590 Edited October 5, 2012 by Vincent C Quote Link to comment
Bruce Kieffer Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 (edited) Too bad some of us have to spend our time trouble shooting when we really need to work. Edited October 5, 2012 by Bruce Kieffer Quote Link to comment
Bryan G. Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 Bruce you are working! you have been hire with the extremely low I mean no pay job of troubleshooting. Quote Link to comment
Tom Klaber Posted October 5, 2012 Author Share Posted October 5, 2012 I have an Imac with an i7 and 16GB of RAM. From a power perspective I should be OK. It is hard to tell where the issue is coming from. Quote Link to comment
motus Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 we upgraded our iMacs to 32GB RAM which seemed to help, but still getting some crashing, which is not great, but 2012 was also still crashing fairly often even with SP5, so I/we have just become gun-shy and now save every few minutes, or anytime before doing something that regular crashes (rendering especially) the worst scenario seems to be large complex files that were started in 2012 and have been converted to 2013. files started new in 2013 seem to be at least incrementally better. Quote Link to comment
grant_PD Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 What's the i7 Imac ship with in regards to the video card? Quite possibly could be the culprit. Quote Link to comment
Bruce Kieffer Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 How did you install 2013, DVD or download? Quote Link to comment
djb Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 Check the permissions on the software folder. Edit to allow full control. May help. Quote Link to comment
Tom Klaber Posted October 8, 2012 Author Share Posted October 8, 2012 Thanks, everybody. We did the download, not the DVD. We just had the video card replaced by apple, a AMD Radeon HD 6970M. We too are finding "native" 2013 files are preforming better than converted files. We are pushing through with a half and half system Quote Link to comment
grant_PD Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 I find that opening a 2012 file in 2013 is so unmanageable (freezing constantly) that I'm not going to bother with it until I start a fresh project. I have managed to see that it does hidden line renders quite fast though. Quote Link to comment
Bob Holtzmann Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 The SP1 is available for download now, and it has lots of crash fixes, one of which is the "Random file crash". I haven't downloaded 2013 yet, but now that SP1 is here, I'm thinking why not? Quote Link to comment
Tom Klaber Posted October 17, 2012 Author Share Posted October 17, 2012 I have experienced no crashes since upgrading to SP1. Random crash is a good one to fix. Quote Link to comment
ACrisford Posted August 4, 2013 Share Posted August 4, 2013 Mann!!!!! What the hell! VW just crashed, but not only did it crash and lose the last 4 hours of work, the backups have vanished too. I just opened it now, and the only back ups are of it before I started today, and after it crashed. The ones I need with all the work done are gone???? What am I doing wrong?? Is it something to with pdfs? It seems to crash more often with pdfs. But it shouldnt be crashing at all! Quote Link to comment
VincentCuclair Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 Are you on Mac or PC? Quote Link to comment
ottoLejeune Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 2013 seems to certainly be Crash Happy. It's getting to be unbelievably frustrating having to reopen a file time and time again! At least 12 times a day it's crashing. If there's a pattern to the crashing... I, for one, have not figured it out. I only know that this is a complete waste of time! I'm hoping someone at VW is reading the boards... maybe reading the crash data that is coming in seemingly fast and furious from all the crashes happening, and that they are putting together patches soon! And hurry! Soon you'll have to thrown out the 2014 version! Maybe that one will be super buggy as well until the end of summer 2014 ? I wonder if they couldn't just put one out every 2 years? That way they would have time to fix things... to make a better product... ? Just saying. Quote Link to comment
Ronald Balchan Posted August 19, 2013 Share Posted August 19, 2013 I no longer trust the back up or AUTO back up. I've resorted to saving the file OVER & OVER again by rewriting it Quote Link to comment
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