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Ted I just sent you a very upbeat message about having cured my problems. Why don't I just keep my big mouth shut… frame 202 and I get a page frame crash to DOS. I know I can restart the render and get it done but this is hell. well…
Ted, The problem I have is with rendering on a single machine I have not even got the network wired up yet. Another piece of advice I have been given is to completely re-install the whole thing again, deleting all the old files first, including Ipas files too. I have…
Hi Bob I will try anything ( once ) Tim. -Tim Coupland
Ted / Bob I have installed the latest ( on here anyway ) vibrant driver and I do get the odd stray line running out of the window in the keyframer display, so there are still a few problems with the driver in that area. ( Diamond Stealth 32 )…
Null render Yes you would appear to have a point there Ted, if this is really the case then what other memory conflics could there be ? The hard disc is my next place to look I think. regards Tim Coupland. -Tim Coupland
Hi Ted Thanks for the feedback, Harddisk is 1.6Gig scsi via adaptec vlb card. When I have clean booted, there is no cache. Tonight I had a crash to DOS even with a clean boot and no page swap hits ? This is driving me mad, if only it was…
Hi Ted Yes, this is very messy, if I boot with anything other that that required to keep my scsi drive happy and try to video post render, I get a crash to DOS with a memory protection error. I managed to optimise the mesh so that it did not…
Hi Bob I spoke too soon 🙁 Why is it all hell breaks loose at the weekend ? The problem I had has gone away, and now I have an even worse one, I can only render ( about ) ten frames before I get a crash with a memory…
Hi Bob It all went very well, they where thrilled ! The system is behaving much better now, although I did get a pageing error this morning when rendering a flic to disk, it seems to be safer to render to tga and then stich them together. Just running a…
Hi Bob Well I have now used the setup and done things that would have broken it have broken it before, ie. lots of single frame renders at 640×480 to screen then a flic render to disk. No problems so far. The client is in tomorrow, lets hope it behaves…
A note to say thanks to all who responded to my plea for help Adesk say they are 99% sure that it was the vibrant driver for my Diamond stealth 32 video card. All I need to do is to download the latest driver, which I am told is v1.08…
Hi Steve Thanks for the reply. I have no power saving TSR's on the system. The thing renders Ok sometimes, then will just crash to DOS. It is the random nature of the problem that is making me crazy. This is only for test renders at 320×200 What happens when…
"Clients from Hell", yes we all get one sometime. There is a well know knob in one recording studio I know of it is labeled 'DFA' When the client ask's for that difficult one, the engineer tells him all it needs is a bit of 'DFA' he twiddles the knob…
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3DS Problems
Message #195018
Bob Thanks for the pointers, it always takes a while to get used to a new system. Tim Coupland, Field of Vision, London. -Tim Coupland
Hi Stephen Thanks for the input, I have got files set to 90 already. My feeling is that there is something going on with the Dos extender and some setting that I don't know about. or maybe its that dreaded pentium bug . regards Tim Coupland. -Tim Coupland
Hi Bob Yes Thanks, coming in loud and clear Because I could not see my own messages (?) I did not know if they had got there. Tim Coupland, Field of Vision, London. -Tim Coupland
Hi Bob Well it was a bit sudden I know … Thanks very much for your reply. Yes cleaning up the startup was my first move. I have tried taking out calls to EMM386, that seemed to help, but then as I said it only happens sometimes ! I have…
#3DS Problems
Message #194578
Hi all I am new to CIS and posted a rather desperate message over the weekend about problems with 3DS v4, which I have just purchased. Did this get through ? regards Tim Coupland, Field of Vision, London. -Tim Coupland
Hi Tim One way I have used to good effect in petrol station drive ins we have done has been to use 'cardboard' cutouts using a scanned photo of the plant mapped onto a flat mesh using a black and white version as an opacity map. This is very good…
Hi All Another new kid on the block ! New to Compuserve this forum and 3DSv4, it arrived last Monday. I have been using V2 for around 6 months at one of my clients and now have taken the plunge and got myself a copy, so I can do the…