How about XSI stabilty compared to Maya?

[bundleguide]

Hello!

We are comparing XSI and Maya and one thing that seems to be often said about XSI is that it is unstable.
Many say that it crashes often.

Is it true ? Is Maya more stable ?

What is your experience about this ?

Thanks!

[richard-sher]

I really think it has a lot to do with the Hardware. I did some work at 2 different places last month. Both had XSI and Maya. At one place XSI was crashing a lot more than Maya. At the other place Maya was crashing a lot more than XSI. The only real difference I could see was Video cards. The place where XSI was crashing had Quadro cards. The place where Maya was crashing had Oxygen cards.

Who knows? 3d Software stablilty... It's a mystery. What I can tell you is that on my machine XSI almost never crashes. And I have neither of those cards. (I have a Wildcat)

[ottscay]

As far as Nvidia's cards go, I've been running 1.5 on a softquadro patched Geforece2 AMD machine with hardly any crashes at all. So who knows, maybe it depends on the phase of the moon or some similar scientific principal...

Scott

[benreynolds4]

I've had wildcats and oxygens and my friends mostly have nvidia cards, the crashes do seem hardware related.
Using Wildcat crashed alomost never with Houdini, a fair amount in XSI, every few days or for certain tasks in XSI almost always(whos to blame there?) but crashed most in Maya but not the almost guaranteed crashes of XSI for certain tasks, especially render region.
Using Oxygen XSI used to crash a lot more, Maya was OK and Houdini was OK excpet in Dual screen where its useable unless you maximize an OGL window on the extended monitor then you're guaranteed a crash.

Comparing XSI and Maya for stability I'd have to say now that XSI has worked out most of the bugs from v1 and it is very stable, more stable than Maya by a bit , but ver 2 that just came out may bring a whole new set of problems.

[wolfinger]

I've found that there's some specific things that always result in crashing XSI, such as using the new polygon tool the wrong way at the wrong time (after pressing the wrong key by mistake). Avoiding those things takes away most crashes.

[jugger]

xsi2.01 is much more stable from the old version..
I really like it !!

[fishon]

most defenatly video card mother board combo are the causes of most crashes on my comp.

agp can and will conflict with a doggy motherboard resultin lots of crushes.

[douglasfigueira]

I totaly agree. My experience says that 3Dlabs cards are much more stable compared to nVidias.

Gvx seems slower than the gforce but more stabe.

mod

[marvin2k1]

had a gvx 1 pro...sold it on ebay and got myself a geforce- never had one issue related to graphics...EVER. On the other hand, the gvx pro was a nightmare with xsi and gave me no end of trouble in win XP. Looking to grab a geforce 4 when they hit.

[atyss]

GeForce 4 already shipped!!

www.nvidia.com

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