XSI constantly crashing

#1

Hi everybody ! I recently downloaded the 30 day XSI trial because I want to “migrate” from 3 years in Max to XSI.

My problem is that a few days after installing the program, XSI started crashing for absolutely no reason, since I came from Max I am pretty used to some crashing but the problem is that from the moment XSI crashes I can’t open it again because after about 3 seconds it just crashes again without giving me any apparent reason.

3D and 2D programs rarely crash on me, I have 2 Nvidia 8800 GTS GPU’s and a standard dual-core Intel processor (all running on XP).

My trial time is running out and this program looks really awesome ! any help will be appreciated as soon as possible !

#2

Sounds a bit messed up! Could try renaming the prefs directory in your users folder to 7.5_old or something similar, in order to force xsi to recreate it - this used to work with older versions, whether it does with 7.5 I’m not sure.

c:\users\yourname\softimage\xsi_7.01 or whatever the newer version folder is now called.

Otherwise reinstall?

#3

Oh, sorry for not being specific enough, I tried EVERY SINGLE solution in here :

http://xsi.wiki.avid.com/index.php/Troubleshooting_Startup_Problems

The troubleshoot that helps you check whether the problem is display-driver-related came positive and apparently it’s my GPU which is causing the problem, so I updated my drivers, no good…I then downgraded my drivers, again, no good… so I turned off SLI and everything worked fine for a few minutes and as expected everything went to shit again all of a sudden and the exact problem remains …

#4

Have you also tried the fix at the bottom of this thread?

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=253220

It says:

Open a command prompt:
Start/Run/cmd.exe

in the dos window type:

netsh firewall reset <enter>

then

netsh winsock reset <enter>

This has worked for me in the past when XSI wasn’t starting up.

#5

Thanks for the tip ! is it a permanent fix ? because after I reset the computer the problem usually goes away for a few hours …

#6

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