#BIG problems w/3DS
Hey! I'm trying to use 3-D Studio 3.0 (Rev 2) on a Novell network (3.11) and
it's doing all sorts of wierd things! Sometimes, I can render everything just
fine, and then it will often just lock up with "video noise" (only way I know
how to describe it – black and green dots along the top 1/8 of the screen) on
one machine, and on the slave machine it will sometimes lock during a random
frame either during the rendering or transforming objects phase. Both are
486/66 VLB machines with 16MB RAM and > 500MB hard drives, 1.5GB drive in the
server, 2MB VLB cards (one is an Orchid F1280 VLB w/2MB, the other a Hercules
Graphite Pro/VLB w/2MB).
I've done my best through the dealer to get ideas and any suggestions, booted
"clean" with just "HIMEM.SYS" and the mouse driver, etc – still no go (I
normally have it using QEMM 7.03 with lots of stuff loaded high). I have also
taken the files and put everything on the slave machine, moved the hardware
lock and not even logged into the server and still get the same result(s).
I've looked at the logs on the network rendering times and everything looks
just fine – except the last entry is always [xx:yy:zz] Machine 2222 [486/66
Orchid] assigned frame nn… Something is really wierd here, and I've gone
over the manuals front to back several times, including the "advanced" guide.
H E L P ! ! ! (please <g>…)
Mike Ratledge, President Hi Tech Computer Systems, Inc. & 3-D Animation Studios