bugs 2005-05-04 - By Bradley R. Gabe
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Just curious, what graphics card are you using and which drivers?
>Hey,
>
>Of course, now it won't crash. XSI wrote and wants me to send them the
>CAB, and it won't crash when I want it to. Alway crashes when I _don't
>want it to, though, so I gotta trick it!
>
>;-)
>
>Anyway, I am indeed on dual monitor. I have two copies of XSI open, but
>these same exact problems happen to the guy next to me, who never works
>with two copies open. Other thant those, the only things I have open are
>Thunderbird, AIM, Firefox and the task manager, none of which is taking
>very many resources.
>Yeah, I reboot two or three times a day usually. I always reboot when I
>arrive at work first off, then usually after a crash, though not every
>time or I'd spend my entire day rebooting.
>
>Same res on both monitors. Yes, very heavy workgroups, but can't do
>anything about that.
>
>Thanks for all the ideas everyone.
>-M
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>Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote:
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>>Crashes when opening windows or changing layout (which creates windows..)
>>is symptomatic of running out of resources under windows. Resources are
>>memory slots given to items such as menu handles and bitmaps. You're
>>more prone to get these problems if you run dual screen since you're
>>probably using the space and have twice as many windows.
>>
>>Perhaps you're running an application or task bar widget that leaks
>>resources, or takes a lot of them. For example, iTune is a pig in terms
>>of Windows resources (I'm sure they don't mind making windows look
>>bad...), it takes as many resources as XSI itself even in compact
>>mode. There can be hungry Explorer shell extentions as well. In the Task
>>Manager, you can see how many User Objects and GDI objects applications take.
>>
>>You could also be using a custom XSI layout that has too many views in
>>it; stack of views are very expensive and shouldn't dock large views like
>>the animation editor (which contains the dopesheet, expression editor,
>>fcurve editor and scene explorer)
>>
>>When all else fails rebooting the machine does clear out any resource
>>leak that might be lingering in the shell.
>>
>>
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>>>-- --Original Message-- --
>>>From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)]On Behalf
>>>Of Matt Hollingsworth
>>>Posted At: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 3:19 PM
>>>Posted To: xsi
>>>Conversation: bugs
>>>Subject: bugs
>>>
>>>
>>>Man, getting sick of some of these bugs in XSI. Does anybody know if
>>>there is some huge open GL bug or something? I constantly have crashes
>>>when opening the freestanding windows for many things, but mostly the
>>>animation mixer adn animation editor. In the shop here, it's known that
>>>you should either open those in a viewport or save before trying to open
>>>the freestanding window. That, and I often have crashes when changing
>>>my layout. And while copying and pasting is not causing crashes, I sure
>>>wish they'd fix it. There are many different areas where it jsut does
>>>not work properly. Also, to me, seems like XSI is particularly
>>>sensitive to networks that are bogged down a bit. And, no, this is not
>>>isolated to my machine or my preferences. I also notice that when my
>>>comps get a heavy node count that I am forced to use those little
>>>navigation windows, and I really really HATE those things.
>>>Would much rather move around on my own. Same thing in the render tree.
>>>
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