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#AniStudio Locked up

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#171647From: Mei-Tien HsingMay 24, 1995 10:47 AM
Sometimes, animation studio simply locked up. Nothing works. I have to reset the system. It did not give out any warnings. Once it happened when I tried to play a script with four movies. I already reduced the color resolution to 256 to save memory. Please help. Mei-Tien
#171701From: NAAUGMay 24, 1995 3:50 PM
>> Sometimes, animation studio simply locked up. Nothing works. I have to reset the system. It did not give out any warnings. Once it happened when I tried to play a script with four movies. I already reduced the color resolution to 256 to save memory. << this could be resulting from anything. strip your system's configuration files down to a bare minimum with files, buffers, a shell statement, and a device for HIMEM. see if it works. then start piecing your CONFIG.SYS file back together. make sure you have no lost clusters on your harddisk (use CHKDSK/F if needed), and make sure you have plenty of free harddisk space (try 30MB for starters) to open your 4 movies. the more you open, the bigger the temp files. -dave