bugs 2005-05-04 - By matt hollingsworth
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Hey,
Quadro FX 1100. As for the driver, seems to be 6.14.10.5303. The
systems guys updated this when I came back here in February.
-M
Bradley R. Gabe wrote:
> 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
>>
>> Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> -- --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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