# Combustion crash
**URL:** https://forum.highend3d.com/t/combustion-crash/8295
**Category:** Compositing
**Tags:** combustion
**Created:** [April 4, 2002, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/combustion-crash/8295 "2002-04-04T15:31:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@mpdwa](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/mpdwa)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2002, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/combustion-crash/8295/1 "2002-04-04T15:31:42Z")
Hi,
When I am rendering an animation, even a little one (60 frames), the program suddenly close without any notice. I tried AVI, Quicktime and DivX codecs, and the same thing occurs.
My computer: AMD 1.2Ghz, 256MB RAM, 20GB HD - Windows XP.
Note: I use 3D studio Max with no problem.
Any idea, please, help!
Sincerely,
Vitor
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### Author:  [@cyberjay](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/cyberjay)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2002, 11:41pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/combustion-crash/8295/2 "2002-04-09T23:41:43Z")
Do you use 3DSMAX?
If you use a MAYA iff format.It's normal.
I'm embarassing too
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### Author:  [@renderbeast](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/renderbeast)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2002, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/combustion-crash/8295/3 "2002-04-17T13:06:05Z")
Maybe you should use more RAM.
I use 512 MB/AMD 1GHz without crash.
SUMAG
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### Author:  [@sascha-1](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/sascha-1)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2002, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/combustion-crash/8295/4 "2002-04-19T18:55:30Z")
Which version are you using?
If it's Version 2 check to see that Autosave is turned off. There seems to be a bug that often causes c\* to crash when autosave kicks in during rendering or Ram caching. I had the same problem and this sorted it out.