"SO FAR" this one is OK... I caused Vue to do an "almost" crash (i have no idea why Retopologizing a terrain causes out of memory issues), but for the first time, it actually recovered itself instead of completely crashing and causing my system to do a hard reboot.

I did notice a bit of flickering, so if it starts driving me loony, will try that 275.65 driver, Thelby....

Retopologizing - i know this is supposed to correct the "stretched" polygons that terrain sculpting can cause... but why does it sound like E-ON is apologizing in the very name for the fact that it doesn't seem to be able to handle what its supposed to do?  chuckles  I must admit, though - every time I attempted it before, ... BOOM!  Instant crash, instant rebooting of computer.  THIS time, it chugged, it clunked, i actually HEARD my video card for the first time EVER... it screamed a resource warning, it complained bitterly saying it was going to crash and to basically cross my fingers, my toes, and even my eyeballs that it could save before doing so... but it did it - it saved a backup, and then - with a lot of patience on my part - even allowed me to "save as". 

I wish there was a way to reduce the number of polygons in a terrain that has been sculpted - and still be able to access the terrain editor later (i did discover the baking to polygon thing... WHY do they call it "baking"?)... my sculpted terrains tend to run anywhere around 8 million polygons on up... at least for the image i've been TRYING to achieve (been working on this for almost 2 weeks straight now, and still havent gotten further than the terrain... GRRR)... only have two terrains in there that are still terrains - the other two were baked and are now crispy lil objects. ;)

At least I was smart enough to save the terrain I wanted Retopologized out, bring it into a clean scene, and then do the Retopologizing in that - otherwise, i believe the thing would have completely crashed - Hmmm, but then I woulda been able to completely test out my problem... Vue crashing causing computer hard reboot...

i just didnt want to damage my 25th (or more) attempt (file) of this scene.

Anyways... like i said, if I run into any more "snags" or the flickering thing starts annoying me to no end, gonna update the driver yet again LOL.

Rarer than a hairy egg and madder than a box of frogs....

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