Fatal Error Smoothing

[rotor]

Okay I had a model and was smoothing different parts of the meshes in it. Some smooth fine but the rest after I hit smooth I get "Fatal Error . Attempting to save in D:/Doc.....20080430.1709.ma" hit ok and the command line continues then when its done maya crashes.

Googling all I can find is its a video card driver problem and to disable tripple buffering and if using a quadro disable overlay. Tried without tripple buffering enabled it still happens and I can't find any opengl settings to change the overlay (GeForce 8800GTS 320) so I lowered the res as it said "or don'tt run in a res greater then 1600x1200x32bit but still crashes

Tried deleting the maya folder that gets created in my docs with the prefs and same thing.

Using the latest Forceware driver i just download and some of the meshes arn't even complex just 7000 tris etc and crash on a single smooth.

Anyone got any other idea's on how to stop the crashing and also why maya is failing to write the temp file?

Okay just tried running in 16bit colour and there's no problem at all. Obviously the driver or the card so does anyone know of a Forceware that might work? or ware i can get to OpenGL settings in the GeForce to see if the overlay makes any difference. I really don't want to have to run maya in 16bit colour as I get a terrible performance hit.

Okay installed RIvatuner and got access to OpenGL settings and seems overlay is a quadro only feature so it rules out that being the problem.

[joojaa]

QUOTE(Rotor @ 04/30/08, 10:21 AM) [snapback]284892[/snapback]
Googling all I can find is its a video card driver problem and to disable tripple buffering and if using a quadro disable overlay. Tried without tripple buffering enabled it still happens and I can't find any opengl settings to change the overlay (GeForce 8800GTS 320) s

Your card des not have a overlay, because its not 100% open gl compilant (wich is a huge problem!). You should be running 32 bit color in maya at all times.

Well new or even OLDER drivers should somewhat help but sicne your card isnt guaranteed to work with maya under all circumstances all bets are off.

[rotor]

What the actual problem its having though? Since i've never had it happen till now and why happen when smoothing one mesh and not when smoothing another identical one

And the card problem still doesn't explain why it can't save the temp file........

Will softmod it later and see if it still does it.

[joojaa]

I ddnt say it was a card problem tough it quite clearly is.

QUOTE(Rotor @ 04/30/08, 12:52 PM) [snapback]284903[/snapback]
Since i've never had it happen till now

Thet desnt mean everything is in working order tough. its a leap of false logic since according to taht logic nothing could ever berak.

Unfortunately you don't have a choice on the matter you can test things untill it works or get a nother graphics card. Those are your options. Autodesk doesn't target yuor card (in fact they ballently tell you any problems you get for not using the listed cards is your problem) so they don't particularly care either.
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And the card problem still doesn't explain why it can't save the temp file........

No but recovering a crash is always risky business its a game of might work might not. So its more of hit or miss thing its a attempt to do so. Thing is if you play with ethe gfx card you risk crashing program subsytems in way that kills off those subsystems without question form the operating systems view (thats its job)

At least maya attempts to save it out.