Ok need some help figuring out why bryce is crashing on me.. It never done it before. Now whenever i try to work in bryce it will just "go away" compleatly close exits nothing notta! Got me pulling out my hair here so if anyone knows how to fix it please please please let me know! Thanx in advance! Rod.

What operating system are you using ? Windows or Mac ? Which version ? What version of Bryce ? Do you have Daz Studio installed on your system ? If so, which version ? If not,.........what was the last application you installed before Bryce started crashing ?

shines a really bright light in poor warblade's face no, but really, did you ever try alt-tabbing to see if bryce is still around? drac

Didn't you just recently have a problem with transparency maps in Bryce and didn't that happen after you reformated your drive? I'm thinking maybe these two episodes linked somehow?

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I'd bet you trashed your Registry - unless you know what you're doing there it's cheaper time-wise just to reinstall Bryce. Not too long ago I was working with DX6 or DX7 sdk and I made the mistake og installing a part of the SDK that overwrote my HAL settings - I had to boot by F10 to completely reinstall XP. it took 10 hours and all my associations were trashed.It took weeks to get my computer back in line and in the meantime one of my best friends died of cancer, my mother got sick and I had to start caretaking for her my landlady started acting like a monster from hell, George Noorey started boring me, they took Star Trek Enterprise off the air ... well you get the idea. The moral of the story is don't press the F10 button even in an emergency; either that or reinstall Bryce. If its a formatting problem I.E. you might have reformatted the disk to FAT-32 on a NTFS system. I hear that is possible and creates lots of probles but then you'd have bigger problems than Bryce not working.

OK well i am using windows XP home..Bryce 5.0..Daz 1.0.. Bryce was the last program i installed on here. Alt tab dont work i tried that and it is no where to be found.After my reformat i had no problems untill just the other night when i was working in bryce i went to import an obj. and bam! it was long gone. As far as the trans maps i took care of that with DAZ's turbo importer.. Rod.

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Another thing to check is cooling. Bryce and other rendering programs will take your CPU up to close to 100% and the (cpu) temperature will rise accordingly. My notebook runs at around 37 degrees centigrade during normal operation but will go straight to 58-60 degrees when rendering a scene. A dirty heat sync or a cooling fan that's failing (or failed) will cause problems. It's easy to check and should be done anyway, every few months. Another question would be, can you repeat the crash? Does it crash at the same point each time with a specific scene?

Cooling fans yes!! An old 233 p2 of mine started acting funny on me . . . everything from bus errors to not being able to find files - that and the CMOS battery went out. Bought a new battery and took the fan motor from an old cpu power supply and set it up so it blew across the heat sink for the cpu and replaced the cpu fan again from a defunct computer. Now it runs at 95 degrees F and has very few problems. Mostly I use it to run w95 and old dos games now, but the idea is valid. Later windows systems use tubing to direct fan air flow (away from the cpu) so I don't know if you could get by with that extra fan trick - but maybe.

I can't believe I wrote "heat sync" instead of "heat sink". I should also add that I had a scene that would crash until I changed to "render to disk". I'm not sure why, but it might be worth trying.