propstuff Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 Hi, I've got some Interior Design students who have modeled and textured loor layouts, but when they come to view them in Final Quality, VW crashes almost instantly with a Runtime error. The files that crash do not seem to have PIO's that are any different to the students whose files do not crash. The same files do not crash on my cheesy 5YO IBM laptop. The machines are Dells, XP Prof S/P2 2.8GHz P4 504Mb RAM, 756Mb Virtual memory 37Gb H.D. VW 11.0.1 build 31631 Is this enough virtual memory for a PC ? Can anyone see anything else in this setup that might cause the crashes?? N. Quote Link to comment
Viper x Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 Sounds similar to my problem, what does your pf task bar read for VW ? http://techboard.nemetschek.net/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=12;t=005452 Quote Link to comment
propstuff Posted November 6, 2005 Author Share Posted November 6, 2005 I don't think its memory leakage because after a fresh reboot of the computer the relevant files will cause an instant crash if rendered in Final. I don't know where the PF task bar is in a windows machine. N. Quote Link to comment
Viper x Posted November 6, 2005 Share Posted November 6, 2005 Right click on the bottom menu bar and task manager will come up > click on processes and then > view > select columns > memory usage Watch what VW is doing as far as memory usage. Quote Link to comment
propstuff Posted November 7, 2005 Author Share Posted November 7, 2005 Thanks for that viper. As I said though; it's not memory "leakage", it never lasts long enough to "leak". Even with a freshly restarted computer, it crashes within a second of initiating the render. Does anyone know what Virtual Memory "ought to be" set to, or if it's not likely to be that at all? cheers, N. Quote Link to comment
Viper x Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 Mine is set at 2104mg. Quote Link to comment
Rick Francken Posted November 7, 2005 Share Posted November 7, 2005 Hello Nicholas, "504Mb RAM, 756Mb Virtual memory" This line caught my eye. Not the Virtual memory setting, but the RAM. If it's showing 504, then that means that 8MB is allocated to the onboard graphics adaptor. Try bumping it to 32MB for starters. This setting usually can be changed in the BIOS setup (don't know if Dell provides an interface in Windows to change it). Regards, -Rick Francken Quote Link to comment
propstuff Posted November 7, 2005 Author Share Posted November 7, 2005 thanks for that Rick, I'll ask the IT people about changing it. Any other ideas anyone? cheers, N. Quote Link to comment
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