I'm having a tough time with Vue Pro on my one and only XP box. I've downloaded Mem Turbo and have been watching my memory while working on a 540 object, 8 million poly scene. As I work the memory keeps being chewed up until I have to recover it (this doesn't take long - half hour maybe less). I've tried the same scene on one of my W2K boxes and it works just fine - keeps returning memory while I'm working. Is this an XP thing maybe? What's with the handling of ram or whatever. Just thought someone may have had the same problem (I couldn't find it in previous posts). The XP box has registered ram that I've tested (dual xeon 2.2, 1 gig ram, ATI 9800 pro) and just dogs along. The W2K box is dual 1 gig, 1 gig single density ram, ATI 7000 and works like a champ. maybe its time to dump XP (which I don't like anyway. Ideas appreciated. Thanks Bot

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If you got Y2K why are you running XSUCKS! There is a memory leak but is it vue? Why are you recovering memory Memturbo should be doing it auto or it's not worth having it running. Keep in minimized to the tray. There is two ways to upgade. Big pig operating system and run a speedy puter slower than win3.1 Big puter running small OSS speeding along getting your work done. I think I'm going to start doing what my buddy does. Stop helping people fix there puters. The only reason why people are using this trash they call Microstuff is cause there is 1000's of people like me helping people like you keep them running. Hey if we all stop helping you'll stop buying it and we'll move on to bigger better things like Linux. Microstuff says there is no support for Linux but hey when was the last time you got support from them? Called them up lately? It's guys like us that keep it working for them but why? It counter productive. Don't take it personally but I've been thinking about this awile. That animated click here to begin got me thinking. I've removed that from 1000's of puters. Why? I'm going to leave it from now on and if it's not there I'm going to turn it back on. It shows the stupidity of microsucks. Like doesn't start already mean that? Thing is you have to hack it to turn it off. There so stupid they didn't even put in a way for the customer to turn it off themselves. It's microstuff it's suppose to work that way. Stop buying it. "It dosen't matter" Quote from Bill Gates when Steve Jobs said his operating system was broken.

I hear this all the time. My XP dosen't crash ever. BUT IT DOSEN'T WORK ! It might as well be crashed it has the same effect. You still are not getting YOUR work done.

You don't have to sugar coate it with me - come out and say what you mean! I hate when people are subtle... ;-) It came pre-installed so I thought I'd try it for a while. I've never used it before so I didn't know. I get the creepy feeling it's 1995 when I use it. No big - its gone asap. Thanks Bot

XP is not,in my opinion the major problem. Xp can be set to run Vue exclusively in memory in high priority if you want. Not gonna get in a Linux fight here.. And you might check some other topics and find your cure.. these are copied that refer to problems you refer to. "Well, I like VuePro, but then I am dabbling in animation. Much of the increased functionality has to do with that (like the full G buffer implementation). On the down side, you have to be willing to take good care of your OS and system, as VuePro has quite a few more hooks into the OS than Vue 4 does. And it can be memory hungry ( a gig of physical RAM seems to be the sweet spot when dealing with Poser importing, although more it better). If you are doing only static Poser imports, then Vue 4.2 is probably what you want. Animation, and VuePro will be worth the extra money, IMHO. " 3. Re: Vue 4 vs. Vue 4 Professional by Robot17 on 1/25/04 00:12 IMHO Vue Pro is a great idea that's not quite there yet. Some people say they havn't had many problems with it but for me it has been a nightmare at times. I've pretty much gone to modeling as much as I can in Vue and then finishing in Vue Pro when I need its functions that aren't available in Vue. The updates have helped but I still find it to be unstable and I'm having new problems on my XP box. I don't use Poser with it so I can't tell you anyting about that but here are some of my experiences. I tested it out on 2 dual G-5's (I have 3 G-4's, 2 G-5's, 5 PC's and older PC's and Mac's) and have found that rendering times on the G-5's for a single frame is about 1/3 faster than my Dual Xeon box. It's kind of wierd though because it seems like the difference isn't that much when I'm rendering an animation - I'm not sure why it makes a difference but it seems to. That is on the same animation it doesn't get completed in a third less the time - sometimes it seems about even. I've found the Mac install a bit more stable and the open GL better but I ordinarily model on my Dual Xeon at home and render on the G-5's at the studio. Its kinda nice just uploading to my FTP or burning to a disk off my PC and then running the stuff I do at home off the Mac. Long gone are the days when I used to have to pack a Jaz drive around to move files!! My suspicion is that some of the problems that are occuring with Vue Pro are a result of rushing it to market but I would still buy it knowing what I know because I'm confident that E-on is fixing the problems. Many of the new additions to Pro are really cool and are helping to make it an outstanding tool for what it is good at. I also think some of the problems are on my end too so its not just a one way street. You'll love it on a G-5 though as you hit F-9 in a full screen camera window and watch that puppy come up 30 seconds later... Bot Vue4 Pro is a memory hog.. Simple as that. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Right now I'm running a 166 486 puter. Running firebird browser on Linux. If you come sat down right here and I didn't tell you what kind of computer it was you would never know. It's loaded like it's got 64 megs of ram ! I bet it's as fast as what your running up there but I'm sure rendering you'd notice. Imagine now what I could do with your computer running what I got right here? Get the idea? Less is better. Now this is just a box to serf the web but hey it don't crash and all the programs on it work. And I mean it don't crash. You know those sites you go to and a billion banners start poping up? On this one it's funny cause like hundreds of windows open and it don't care it don't crash it just runs. 4 huge desktops. Oh bought Lindows the other day. Haven't downloaded it yet. Price? $0 dollars they had some deal on it. Deals over now though. Are we learning anything yet?

Ain't any way to get Vue running or rendering in Linux though is there? Would be nice. Bot

Ask your local walmart retailer how their Lindows systems went over...

I'm not sure. If there is a way I'll figure it out. Photoshop runs on Lindows so hey it's getting there. I wrote two huge posts here explaining how to get your stuff your working on working. I went to find the link and woops loaded it into the wrong browser window so I lost the post. So I typed it in all again then a I posted it. But it took so long I became unlogged in at renderosity so I lost it again ! You got a memory leak happening there. Now find it by using some utility that shows what process is using the most processor power. Now that will be vue but just get vue running minimize it. Now look at the running processes. Now Vue should not be taking any power. What is? If you can stop it stop it. If Memturbo spools the leak properly and the computer keeps running just ignore it. I have some programs here that also do that, I just ignore them that's why I have MemTurbo. If it's Vue pro then tell E-On that there is a memory leak on Vue Pro running on XP. If it does though I'm sure they already know about it.

Thanks Mighty Pete I'll check into it although I think the best thing would be just to can XP and go with W2K. Bot