Softimage 3d crashing

[aniljangid]

Softimage3d keeps crashing for some reason it says fatal error detected soft will die can anyone help me please I use softimage3d 3.9 on windows NT 4.0 I have a viper v770 video card. It will run for about 5 minutes then crashes every time please help.I would be very grateful.

[janina-overley]

I used to run SoftImage 3.8SP2 on that same setup - I had an AMD K6III 450 processor machine

I was using the Detonator drivers for the graphics card, available from the Nvidia website - the drivers that came with the card weren't too hot.

Once these were installed, Soft ran pretty much trouble free

SoftImage does crash sometimes, but on a trouble free system it will resurect itself to the point of the crash, preventing loss of work. It shouldn't crash often though

If it always crashes after about the same period of time, check your Bios settings, particularly with regard to memory usage.

I found a good way to check the likely stability of the machine while running OpenGL dependant programs (like Soft) was to run the 3D Lettering screen saver - if you leave it running this over night and it's still there in the morning then your OpenGL setup is trouble free.

I'd better be workin now
Hope all this helps

[aniljangid]

It crashes like if I use it over 5 to 10 minutes it will crash if I click on a tool like a light or camera smooth subdivide...etc.but to sum it up it crashes every time I use it.

[aniljangid]

it says in the cammand prompt window createlib failed error code 0 or something like that does that mean anything.
Please help.

Edited by 3d luver on 02/02/01 10:32:59 AM.

[richard-sher]

Try turning off plug and play on your motherboard BIOS.

If that does not work then try putting these environment
variables in your SETENV.bat file.

set SI_NO_OGL_ACCELERATION=1
set SI_GRIDWITHOUTSTIPPLE=1
set SI_OVERLAY=disable

Hope this helps.

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