soft freezes

[colinsenner]

Hy everybody,

Maybe some of you had this problem in the past. It was posted many times here and on other boards. I read the posts and try what you suggested but.. i cant get a stable soft..

I really hope anybody can help me out. Im working around for weeks now to fix this damn freeze problem. When it freeze all I can do at this time is a hardware reset. My students getting crazy. And me too. We have installed Soft3.91 on W2k machines with Athlon processors. Since Soft should work with W2k its maybe this combination with Athlon? We installed the latest hotfixes and updates for W2K and the VIA Bus driver updates but no luck...
I tried nvidia 6.49... soft still freezed
right now i tried nvidia 12.41... what happened? freezed.
Same problem with XSI.

Maybe its on the bios settings?

We use 1.1 GH Athlons W2K NVidia Geforce 2 Ultra 64 MB
600 MHz Athlon W2k Elsa Gloria II 64 MB

Unfortunatly, using NT is no option.

Please,please someone help me!!!!

[pomme]

What other applications which you have installed?

[pomme]

and also, under what situation that soft will crash? when you are rendering? when you are in paint mode? when you are adjusting mental-ray? or even when you only have 1 cube in your scene. Is that when your scene gets complicate? or it will crashes with un-expected surprise. More info will help

[colinsenner]

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its not scene or or object depending. ie. it happened when playing an animation in loop mode or just working a while and translate an object soft freezes. I think its something with the overlay. someone posted the same problem long time ago. He used same machine (athlon 600;GloriaII softimage 3.92) He fixed it with disabling the 4x AGP) I tried it, no success.
I disabled the si-overlay via softimages environment variables.

other applications installed:

win2k SP2 (microsoft announces SP2 includes a bugfix to prevent video lock under some 3d applications- I dont see it...)
XSI (what seems to working properly)
Premiere, Photoshop.
Im not sure, but i think its a hardware problem.

Sven

[atyss]

Sorry to answer you late, sven constable, but strangely this weekend I answered to a similar problem on the softimage mailing list.

Have you considered that the problem may occur because of your GeForce 2 card? Almost every poeple I know, including myself, have problems with their GeForce 2 graphic card.
All of these problems concerns the display. Many times, when performing particular operations (like exiting info-selection), Softimage redraws the content of all viewports, at a killing slow speed.

I'm also on an Athlon system, and sometimes, especially when manipulating actors, my computer simply freezes and I have to reboot.
So, yes there could be some Athlon issues, but I suggest you to check first with another type of card. You see, GeForce is a great choice for gaming and 3ds max. Also, a software developper (Animatek) told me that the OpenGL of GeForce 2 is highly round-corner.

Again, sorry for answering you this late, but I found your post by pure hasard.
Bernard Lebel

[devdoka]

Are you running Microsoft Exchange by chance (or have Microsoft Outlook open while working)? This has been known to bring SI3D to a halt.

Matt

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Matt Lind
Animator / Technical Director
Softimage certified instructor:
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Softimage|XSI
speye_21@hotmail.com

[gohkgohk]

I also had this problem today when I reconfigured Outlook from an 'Internet E-mail' client to an 'Exchange' client. 3D ran very slowly and then crashed. I switched back to Internet email and everything is fine again.

[fredc]

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I also had this problem today when I reconfigured Outlook from an 'Internet E-mail' client to an 'Exchange' client. 3D ran very slowly and then crashed. I switched back to Internet email and everything is fine again.

I had a problem going from Outlook Express to Outlook 2000. Soft came to a crawl while Outlook was running. Switched back to Express, solved the problem. I have since gone on to other systems and didn't have this problem, not sure what caused it, but it certainly sounds the same.

Excesseye I like your alias. Pretty funny.
Urp

[gohkgohk]

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In reply to:
I also had this problem today when I reconfigured Outlook from an 'Internet E-mail' client to an 'Exchange' client. 3D ran very slowly and then crashed. I switched back to Internet email and everything is fine again.

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I had a problem going from Outlook Express to Outlook 2000. Soft came to a crawl while Outlook was running. Switched back to Express, solved the problem. I have since gone on to other systems and didn't have this problem, not sure what caused it, but it certainly sounds the same.

Excesseye I like your alias. Pretty funny.
Urp

Heh, thanks Urp!

[virtualife]

thanks to all answers but fortunatly i'd fix the problem. Dont ask me how... played with the bios settings (set them to normal performance instead of high) and installed W2k SP2.

All this is quite a while ago but I saw all the new posts today,
and wanted to thanks...

btw: The freezing bug was not the only problem (like always in soft - but i love it anyway...)
I'm working with 3.9.1 since a year or so and all the time I have this fascinating " buttons dissappear & blind-clicking to save the scene" - feature.
Its okay since i've learned to get along with it, but would be interesting if there is any possibility to fix it.
Iwould really appreciate any tips.

thanks to all

s. constable
now 'specter'