bugs 2005-05-07 - By Nick
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I've had these every day for 6 months and every time I had a crash, I
used their tool for sending the crash data to them (sorry, right in
the middle of a move have no access to a machine with XSI on it and I
can't recall the name for it...). I figured that if I sent enough,
they'd eventually get the idea of just how much the software is buggy
(with openGL) and painful to use on a daily basis... but to be fair to
the Soft people, I'm not sure if it's an XSI thing (with the new
arrival of openGL, directX and CG displays being supported) or the new
generation of NVidia cards and the new PCIExpress stuff and dodgy new
drivers from NVidia... either way, it's been a huge pain ever since
4.0... being using the new gen hardware and not being able to test
with older cards/drivers I don't know... either way it makes it really
hard to work with the Animation Editors... In a way, I'm glad I'm not
the only experiencing this, I thought I was going completely insane...
that was just the tip of the iceberg as we were doing all our work
with real-time shaders and captures from the viewports...
On 5/5/05, Matt Hollingsworth <matth@(protected)> wrote:
> Hey Bernard,
>
> So, the network thing fries you as well? I see it with Combustion and
> Shake as well. Major pain. But, you've never encountered the other
> stuff? What version are you using? We're running 4.2.2005.0215-QFE8
> here at work, and believe me, I am not isolated on thsi front. I'm
> surrounded by guys having the same troubles, whether running NT or XP.
> Some of this stuff is understandable, just wondering if there are some
> good work arounds. For isntance, with the animation editor woes; if I
> right click on a paramter and go to it's animation editor, often it
> kills the software. I cant' NOT do this, it's a necessary part of my
> work flow. I suppose I could mark things and open it in a pane, but
> hate that clutter. And, if I try the alternate route of opening up the
> dual monitor animation layout, it often will crash then anyway. As for
> copy and paste, I've had lots of trouble with various iterations of
> that; often cannot copy and paste shaders within the same render tree,
> often cannot copy animation from one particle emitter to another, often
> cannot copy animation on position or color for the gradient in the
> rendertree etc etc etc. I see it all the time on all sorts of
> completely different parts of the program. Wondering if it's maybe this
> version we're running. Still, it's better than the version of 4.0 we
> were running a year ago which would crash during undo or right mouse
> clicks often. Also, could be something inhouse here, you never know.
> Just wondering if others are in the same boat at all.
>
> thanks for the reply,
>
> -M
>
> Bernard Lebel wrote:
>
> > I never had any of these problems EXCEPT for the network thing. If
> > more people had these problems you'd hear about it a lot more.
> >
> >
> > Cheers
> > Bernard
> >
> >
> > On 5/4/05, *Matt Hollingsworth* <matth@(protected)
> > <mailto:matth@(protected)>> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Is anybody else having these troubles, or is anyone aware of easy
> > fixes
> > for these? Just getting sick of having more than 5 crashes every
> > single
> > day.
> >
> > And,does anybody know if there are any plans to make XSI better
> > able to
> > deal with heavy triangle counts and super heavy scenes?
> >
> > thanks for any and all comments and help!
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > -Matt
> >
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