3DS abort!
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I've been using 3DS for over two years now. It still crashes after I view or
render 15+ images. If I do a lot of editing in the Keyframer, it dies an
unhappy death. I have a 486DX-50 EISA w/ 32MB RAM. What gives? If it's a
memory swap problem, then please offer a work around – other than bailing out.
Will send cash, check or money order to the winner of the best solution (NOT)!
(D=>* Alan – Hords of Fun!
I had a problem like this last year, and it turned out to be the hard disk
controller card (el cheapo at $30). As soon as I replaced it with a more
mainstream one all problems ceased. I have no idea if this is the problem with
yours, but it's pretty cheap to replace the controller for a (reliable) name
brand so it may be worth a try.
Michele
No, I've had two different controllers, ESDI and SCSI. It still does it. I
guess I've lost my patience after all these months. It's one of those pety
things that finally catches up with you. Thx 🙂 Alan – Hords of Fun!
I'm not with Autodesk, but… Post for us your CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT,
3DS.SET, what ever command you use to invoke 3DS, as well as a verbal
description of your setup, including video card, drives, RAM, what's on your
I/O ports, etc. THEN maybe someone can figure out what's going on…
David Taffet
Sounds as though there may be some sort of memory conflict, Alan. Are you using
QEMM? If not try it! I have seen it clear up similar problems with 50Mhz EISA's
in the past…
-Alan Iglesias
Have it. All other apps work fine, including Windows. 🙂 Alan – HOF!
Alan,
make a dos bootable floppy and boot up with it. Try 3ds now, if it crashes then
it's your hardware or it's CMOS settings. You'll have to be very systematic to
pin it down. I did this with a clients ISA 486/50 and it was only truly happy
after we went from 48mb to 64mb RAM. Way weird!
Alan:
Just because all other apps work fine when you're using QEMM that doesn't mean
that 3DS will… if you said that all other apps that you have that use PharLap
Dos Extender work fine, then you might have told us something that would let us
provide a clue. The only way we can help is that you follow a few simple steps
that provide us with the information that we need… since we aren't there to
see your problem in person…
First, eliminate everything from your config.sys file except files=40 (and disk
doubler, if you're using DOS 6.0), make sure you're using 3DS in standard VGA
mode (no drivers) and see if the problem goes away. If it does, then you have
QEMM improperly installed.
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