Garry Dreger Posted January 30, 2003 Share Posted January 30, 2003 Katie, Undoes are set at 20. When I do have a freeze, I have to "force quit " and restart . I can then render again until the next freeze, which happens quite randomly : [ hours,days?] thanks Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted January 30, 2003 Share Posted January 30, 2003 Are you generally leaving your computer on for days on end? Quote Link to comment
Kevin Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Hi Katie; I can answer that question. I have restarted my computer three times today. Each time I then choose an orbit animation. At some point everything stops and I get the spinning beach ball. I then have to force-quit vectorworks. It does not mater if I restart or not, it still freezes. Quote Link to comment
Kevin Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 I should note that rendering in Open GL seems to work fine. it is using Renderworks that is the problem. On several occassions I did get an error message "One or more operations were aborted due to lack of memory, increase partition size". This is under OS10.2.3. Obviously I cannot increase partition size. Installed ram is 512MB and only Vectorworks is running. Quote Link to comment
Garry Dreger Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Katie: no, I shut down after each session. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Kevin, Your problem is different than Garry's problem. Garry, Depending on how complex and how many times you render within your undo limit, can affect crashing. Each rendering session is stored as an Undo. If you have a complext drawing and rendering in RW, that is going to use alot of cache/memory for each rendering instance. Closing VW and starting it back up will reset the memory for VW, but does not clear out the system cache. A restart can clear that out. (that's why i asked how often you restart the computer). I think your crashing is related to memory. To further diagnose this problem, are you getting an error message of Type 1, 2, 3 or 25 when the "freeze" occurs? How long do you let it sit and think durring the "freeze" ? Do you lose control of the mouse and everything? Quote Link to comment
Garry Dreger Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Katie; I don't get any error messages. The length of time I let it sit after a freeze depends on how many swear words I can string together befor e I "force quit " . I have let it sit for a few minutes to see if it was just a "hang". .I don't lose control of the mouse but the program is stuck and requires a " force quit " to escape the freeze. Thanks Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Well, if you haven't lost control of the mouse or gotten an error message, the program hasn't frozen or gotten stuck. It might be trying to render a difficult geometry object or a transparency. It's all dependant on what's in the drawing. Next time it happens, let it sit for more than a few minutes to see if it gets past the point of no return. Quote Link to comment
Garry Dreger Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 Katie: the 2nd of two rendererings in a new startup session. Stopped about 1/3 the way down. The little watch stopped. I left it for 15 minutes. Nothing. I can move the watch around the screen, but it stays a stopped watch. When I "force quit ", the mouse again directs an arrow. That's what I meant about not losing control of the mouse. The rendering was of a simple house elevation, [ front], 3 textures, no lighting. Any ideas? Thanks Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 Garry, Email me the file. tech@nemetschek.net Subject - attn:Katie Quote Link to comment
Garry Dreger Posted February 10, 2003 Share Posted February 10, 2003 I've tried 3 times to send you the file.Each time, the message is, "unable to deliver to destination domain. Cannot resolve. " Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted February 10, 2003 Share Posted February 10, 2003 Make sure you are typing in nemetschek.net and spelling it correctly. Here's a mail button tech@nemetschek.net Quote Link to comment
Garry Dreger Posted February 18, 2003 Share Posted February 18, 2003 KATIE, I've updated to 9.2.2 and the problem remains the same. What now? Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted February 24, 2003 Share Posted February 24, 2003 Garry, I've sent the inquiry to our engineer and he's in the process of looking into the problem. Quote Link to comment
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