My Bryce 5 keeps having to close repeatedly. I reinstalled it today but to no avail I'm running windows MX. The problem has gotten so bad as to make it unusable. Any ideas por favor ...TIA Ken

Do you get an error message or anything?

so it just shuts down? any error messages? do u have enough memory to run it? Are you running anything else while trying to run bryce?

says it must close 7 wants to email an error message to microsoft. I have 256 of dd ram computer is brand new 2.4+ athlon. sometimes I have PS running but it crashed when I deliberately tried it alone.

Only Bryce is doing this? Did you try letting it email the error to microsoft?

Reinstalled? Did you run the patch?

Dumb question but did you restart the compy when you re-installed? AND did you make sure you uninstalled ALL components of the old one first?

Did it say "The Program Has Performed An Illegal Operation"? I get that sometimes, then I lose the work.

I don't understand eelnek, a few posts ago you were doing animations with no apparent problems. Now all of a sudden, bam, your puter is shutting down on you. You sure you haven't picked yourself up a nasty virus from somewhere?

Well one thing for sure there is no one at MS to recieve an error reprt,and I'll bet there must be a patch for the OS you are running.Drivers from the site perhaps.Sometimes performing a lot of actions in Bryce will shut it down.Another good thing is to disable any anti virus proggy while installing.Go to msconfig and get rid of half the stuff in your start up too. All helping issues I can think of.

Amethyss: Thankyou, thankyou, thaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnkkkkk YYYYYooooouuuuuuu! I've been trying to find a way to get rid of the stuff running in the background for months. I didn't know about MSCONFIG till you mentioned it.............. MY HERO! The Bryster

I get sometimes too its mostly when i hane pressed ctrl- Z to many times i think.

YW Bryster. Hope it worked for you.I forgot to mention to get to it you click: Start>Run>type :msconfig in pane then OK.Go to the start-up tab and lose the things you dont need.You can drag the headings over so you can see the entire program and it's location.Some a tricky.My image shows just a few things I have checked.Hope this helps.

I use the msconfig all the time, you think you've got it where you want and then something else decides it's going to run in the background without telling you. It's a handy little thing for sure. 8) Another program that might help you Bryster is "Registry Cleaner", I think you can get it from CNet. It disposes of all the bits and pieces that get left lying around when you move things about or install or delete anything. All you need to do when you open it is go to tools:clean all, and it gives you a list of whats ok to delete. Sometimes it makes a back up of data but you can delete that as well. Catlin

Attached Link: http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm

Here's a web site that tells you what program files are necessary on start-up and what isn't. It's nice to know that you are disabling the right thing.

Lol yes it is.But I have disabled things that I was'nt sure of and seemed to have no probs.Usually the Program Files ones you can do away with.Except the anti virus.The problem with the messenger ones is they seem to sneak all kinds of wicked nasties into your system if enabled.I used a beta version of JV16 to do registry cleaning I think its a pay for software now and is avail at Downloads.com