CompuServe Messages

Gregory, Your exact symptoms don't sound familiar, but the overall syndrome is very familiar. Once you seem to go over some mysterious number in swap file size, the swap file size starts growing each frame, and will eventually cause an error because your disk is full. You can get away with a slight bit of a swap file, but that's it. I have no specific inside knowledge of the program to represent that as a fact, but it's definitely my experience. About the only thing you can possibly do is hide any geometry that isn't being used at the moment (out of camera view) or try to use a smaller shadow map. That one got me into severe problems this weekend where I may also lose a project because of not being able to get the program to work properly and not being able to get any help. My shadows started dancing around. The size of your bitmap is also someplace you might try to economize. Otherwise, it's off to buy more RAM. But then again, if we were made of money and could afford $3000 support contracts, maybe we just would have gone out and bought an SGI, Alias, and Softimage <g>. Don't feel alone. If you have any problems that my humble experience might be able to help, just ask. Roger D.