render region crashing XSI

[SheepFactory]

Turn off auto update and manually update render region. See if that helps.

[freddie]

Forgot to say that its when I draw the out the render region window it crashes.

But I will test it :)

Thanks

Freddie

I'll be back...maybe ;)

[JRG]

I suspect it's got something to do with your drivers... my own experience: with the oldest possible drivers coming with XP (I got an old Matrox GFX card) render region works like a charm... with the brand new drivers it gets painfully slow.

EDIT: 'course it's just a clue, the two problems here sound pretty different...

[FiveTalents]

For your comparison, I am using a similar system like yours - A64 3400+/Abit AV8/1 GB RAM/nVidia 6600GT 128MB DDR3 - and I have no problem with render region of any sort. I am using Win XP Pro SP2 and nVidia ForceWare 77.72.

[oglu]

same problem here with my 6800GT... i have testet many different driver... nothing helps... :sad:

[freddie]

Darn.

So XSI like every card except 6800GT :sad:

But so far it seems that it works with auto refresh off

[stipen]

I HAVE THE SAME CRASHES ON ONE OF THE COMPUTERS I'M USING.....THE CARD IS A NVIDIA FX5200.....it doesn't crash every time, but i'd better save my scene before "regioning".....what i do to avoid thoses crashes is to "warming up" ;) the rendering by rendering a tiny empty area, and then render the reel region.... but no drivers could help.

[freddie]

hmm I bought nVidia because of what I have read about XSI and ATI cards don´t mix to good.

I will try with the warmup thing :)

But sofar it works with the auto update turned off :)

[freddie]

GAAAAAAAAAAH :scream::argh::cry: It wasn´t auto refresh :banghead:

Well I gonna reinstall XP anyway so I may try SP2 :argh:

Don´t like SP2, can´t play LAN games with SP2, I don´t know why :shrug:

[freddie]

CRAP!
I reinstalled winXP and installed SP2, and it still crashes, so it seems that XSI don´t like nVidia 6800GT when Oglu had the same problem with his 6800GT.

Or its just my comp that hates me(see my thread in the hardware forum (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=271295))



So it is to save more often and not use render region as often :)

// Freddie

[Strang]

have you talked to softimage support?

[freddie]

No I don´t have a maintenance contract...I need that for that kind of question, right?
Only have Foundation.

[gent_k]

I had the same problem with a driver older than 77.72, on a fx5700.

Forceware 77.72 fixed it for me.

[freddie]

77.72 isn´t that the driver that screwed up the color in moviefiles?
Maybe it was the one before that ? I tested some 77.XX and it drew me crazy:twisted:

But I´m gonna test 77.77 and see what happens then :) maybe it is that simple hehe

[gent_k]

there's a simple fix for that:

in the color correction settings > Apply color changes to: All (instead of Desktop)

and save the settings

[freddie]

I had to do that every time I was gonna watch a .AVI file
Maybe just my comp that is senile :twisted:

But I gonna try 77.77
Thanks for the tip :)

[gent_k]

Well if you "Save as" in that page and then save a new profile, it should remember the settings. But anyway maybe 77.77 works for you.

[dbach]

I will start of by saying that I am running Win2K with a radeon 9100 and had that problem all the time untill I upgraded to a quadro video card but before I upgraded I found that If I disabled my video card (before launching XSI) controle pannel > display > settings > advanced > troubleshooting the problm would go away. sorry I don't know were the XP equivilant is located.

hope this helps,
Donovan

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