Ok I’m running system 10.5.2 on a brand new Mac Pro 2.8 dual quad core machine with an ATI HD2600xt video card with 256 megs of ram. My Mac has 4 gigs of ram. I was doing a mountain fly through which you can see on my site at www.digitalcanvas3d.com. Go to animations and look at the last one on the right. This was a big scene 3 billion polys! Actually it crashed only twice. What bothers me is I can start Vue running add a large tree, pull the wind effector, and presto the machine will freeze! I can do the same thing at another time and all is fine. I think there are real problems with memory leaks because if I look at my resources they will begin to drop at an alarming rate in a fairly simple scene say 250,000 polys. This is when I know I had better quit pronto! Yet sometimes I can run huge scenes and things run pretty good. Now I mainly work in Lightwave 9.3.1, and can work all day without any problems. Same thing in Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, Sountrack Pro, and Indesign. Yet if I start up Vue I know my work flow will come crashing down at any moment. It’s like walking on nails. What gives? I’m really afraid to use this otherwise great software in any real work flow situation because as it is right now it can’t be trusted. Please help!
I Give Up On Vue , and it's Been a Week!
Have you tried File > Purge Memory ? I run it on a PC but this I do alot.
Regards,
Mike
Ok, I turned off the Background redraw thread and that seemed to do it. I was able to create a huge scene, populate it, paint it all without a hitch. Does this mean I can’t use this feature at all? What exactly does it do?
Page 402 of the Vue 6 Infinite manual:
Enable background draw thread: in order to provide speedy feedback while still offering detailed previews, Vue 6 uses two different levels of 3D view quality. The first is the instant feedback, the second is a multi-threaded background update (background draw thread) using a higher level of detail. If you don’t want to use the background draw thread, uncheck this option (e.g. to avoid the views switching quality all the time). If you experience frequent random crashes on your system, this is probably due to your video board driver not supporting the multi-threaded drawing. If you don’t want to disable OpenGL altogether, turning this option off may help improve stability.
In Adobe Reader 8 there is a search function I find very handy! 
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