Hi all, Well, I have to say so far I'm pretty disappointed that Vue 4 (even with the latest patch) is unstable. I get constant crashes when rendering to screen, and then closing that window. Perhaps I'm hitting ESC and then closing the window too quickly, but that doesn't seem to reproduce the problem always. I'd say it happens 1 out of 12 times, just a GPF and then closes down. The other time is a C++ runtime error, it occurs when selecting and deselecting layers. I can't seem to reproduce it regularly. I'm running Win98SE -- I hope some of these are fixed, soon... -Brian

Here's another one, when clicking Edit Material: VUE4 caused an invalid page fault in module at 0000:086cce0c. Registers: EAX=0898d654 CS=0187 EIP=086cce0c EFLGS=00010202 EBX=007160d0 SS=018f ESP=00dcf630 EBP=00dcf6a0 ECX=00dcf694 DS=018f ESI=00000070 FS=29af EDX=0000001f ES=018f EDI=01067010 GS=0000 Bytes at CS:EIP: 00 00 00 00 07 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 60 b0 6c 08 Stack dump: 01067010 01067010 00ca06e0 866c0000 168f00dc 00c004b1 00010900 00000000 865e29a7 00000204 4def8644 00000000 00000004 00040000 16af2d8c bff714d9

Send that error message to E-on Brian and I'm sure they'll work on it :) Laurie

Yep, what Laurie said! It shouldn't be giving you those kinds of problems. I'm also running Win98SE, and I'm finding that Vue 4 is much more stable than 3.1 was. The E-on folks are really friendly and helpful, and I'm sure they'll be able to figure it out. Let us know how it goes! :)

Should I just email support@e-onsoftware.com? Or is there someone else you'd recommend? Thanks! Brian

Hi Brian, support@e-onsoftware.com is fine, and should get you a speedy response :) Cheers

That's odd, I've found Vue to be more stable after the patch. I run Win2000 though. The only annoying problem I'm having is that the view windows keep refreshing, and when the poly count is up it takes a few seconds for this to occure. This could be my video card though.. Anyone else have this happening? Chris

Chris, go to File > Options, and fiddle with the sliders for "Instant Draw" and "Background Draw" to get a more comfortable setting. If you have a low amount of RAM, you may just need to be patient with the redraw, especially in high-poly scenes.

It's a P3-600 with 512MB, the vid card is a 32mb card as well. I will try adjusting the sliders though, thx Chris

heh...low RAM is not the problem. :)

"Invalid page fault" is usually a routine either trying to access some part of the memory it has no business fiddling with, or some memory that doesn't exist. No amount of RAM increase will help, it's just C++ doing what it does best : savaging memory ;-)