bugs 2005-05-07 - By Nick
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I should have read the rest of the posts and replies... anyway, I was
running on a single monitor, 1600x1200, running firefox and mozilla in
the background. It would also do it when nothing else was running in
the background.
I too love the software, even if it doesn't come across quite so
clearly. Isn't it with the things you love the most that you are the
toughest? X-)
On 5/7/05, Nick <nick.petit@(protected)> wrote:
> 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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