R8 Crashes

[RickBarrett]

Do you have dual-processors? If so, there's a known bug that causes instability and a patch is in the works. Unfortunately there isn't a workaround and I can't give you a time frame.

Otherwise, I dunno.

- Rick -

[Bucko]

One 2.4 GHz Pentium 4, 512 MB RAM, Win2000
Nothing weird, just the basic stuff.

[RickBarrett]

Any plugins used in the scenes?

Do new R8 scenes render OK?

Feel free to contact your local tech support.

- Rick -

[Srek]

Originally posted by Bucko
Got the R8 box today. Everything works fine except many of my old files crash immideately when trying to render. I have OpenGL turned off, latest drivers from ATI for my radeon 9700 Pro. I've tried turning of antialias, post effects etc and it always crashes at 0x00000000AC.
Someone previously had similar problems but I cannot find his post nor the responses.

Any ideas?:annoyed:

Hi,
i had crash problems with a 128 MB ATI card due to a false BIOS Setting. Please have a look at the AGP Aperture size setting. It should be set to the size of your graphic adapter memory.
Hope this helps
Srek

[slouchcorp]

Ok so the dual-processors thing sounds like what im seeing. im on NT and every now and then dr watson pops up and cinema dissapears.:thumbsdow

Could it be due to the fact im running dual-processors?

I hope it gets fixed soon, but i save lots so i havent had a major shocker yet:-)

Mike.

[malc0lm]

I friend of mine had the same problem in the early bird version... evry time he would open a r7 scen with blodiNUT shader in it r8 would crash-
when he then removed the blodiNUT shader (in r7) the file could be open in r8.

Hope this helps

[Bucko]

I think I am getting it!
I took one of the crashing files and opened it in r8.
Then I remoeved everything in the scene aside from the camera.
It rendered OK.
while(not crashing)
{
Undo one level;
Try render;
}

:buttrock:

The crashing started when my undo stepping returned instances in the model.

I create a cube, make an instance of it, try render ---- BANG!!!
OK Maxon guys, a reproducible crashing bug whenever I use instances:
Win2000, Pentium4 2.4 MHz, 512 MB RAM, ATI Radeon 9700 Pro latest drivers, OGL turned off.

[CosmicBear]

okay, here's another reproducable cinema-bug (system-administrator already reported it to maxon, i think)

turn off 'textures, volumetric lighning and matt-effects' in the render-options and cinema says 'bye bye'

also an weird render-experience i'm having with r8. i opened a r7-file (lots of transparent bottles, no shaders of any kind, only tifs as textures) and cinema starts to render the scene alright, but stops halfway through it and does - nothing...

i'm on a Dual G4 (2x1GHz, 1 GByte Ram, Mac OS X 10.2)

[Bucko]

Can anybody with a graphic card other than from ATI try render a scene with instances and see if it crashes for them too?
I played with the demo on my old non ATI GPU PC and rendered scenes with instances without a hitch but so either the crashing bug was introduced after the DEMO or it only affects ATI equipped PCs (highly unlikely as I the renderer don't use the GPU AFAIK).

If instances doesn't work in R8 on any machine no matter the GPU, the I guess the QA department at MAXON will find their faces turn the color of santas jacket.

[AdamT]

I have no problem rendering instances on EB 8.01, nVidia Ti-4600, W2k.

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