Greetings, I am back into Vue 4 after a long break! I am doing an animation and for some reason it keeps crashing after a certain number of frames. I tried first rendering directly to uncompressed .AVI, then I decided to go the old frame by frame output and it still makes Vue crash after a few minutes. It's quite annoying and I tried going back to Vue 4.0 since I thought it was a bug in the 4.01 and it does the same thing! I also tried removing the batch.exe file and it didn't solve the problem at all. It would be nice to know what is happening since it's quite annoying. I am running WinXP RC2 but I suspect the problem is in the batch rendering. Let me know if someone else experienced this...I managed to make 2 simple animations and now I am trying to re-render one I did but it really doesn't want to work at all. :( Cheers!

Hi Flywaver! :) I'm not the overly technical sort and Vue 4 HAS had is share of annoying bugs, some of which can't even be duplicated by 2 different people, BUT...the fact that you are running XP really makes me suspicious. For one, Vue 4 was optimized for Windows ME, 98 and 2000. And since I am one of the folks who NEVER, EVER will put any Microsoft program in beta on my machine, I tend to think it may be XP more than anything else, unless someone else has been having the same troubles as yourself. Until others get XP and can test it out themselves, you may have little help for your crashes if it turns out to be the OS. There may be something about the operating system that Vue just doesn't like. It's never the been the most stable of programs in any version ;). Sorry I couldn't be more help. Laurie

I've rendered a few animations, but nothing of any great length, since this is my only PC, but have not had any crashes. But then again, I don't have crashes rendering to disk, either, like some others have had. I'm using 98 SE. I know nothing about XP, other than that I think I'll upgrade to Win 2K and leave it at that. ;)

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Hi Flywaver, I would agree with Laurie at the moment, as XP is still in beta testing (what Microsoft software isn't LOL!), and is also outside the reccomended system requirments for Vue. Have you tried running Vue in "Compatibility Mode" under Windows 98 emulation, and seen if that makes any differance? Cheers

Actually I am running RC2 which is far more stable than the beta builds as it's the final build before release. Only tweaks happened since RC2 to Final, this build is about 2 weeks old and it has gone gold 3 days ago. After running XP I would never go back to Win9x, which I left 2 years ago when I moved to Win2k. It might be an issue with WinXP but I doubt it since I started the animation with a different motion and it rendered 386 frames just fine. Btw, all my apps are running 100% stable in WinXP, and Vue 4 only crashed with these animations. :) Anyways, I will be ready to make Vue 4's review and it should be ready within a few days...and yes I will note that it's been tested under WinXP! :) Cheers!

Since this problem is repeatable (at least on your machine), you should probably make a note of the steps you're taking and the error messages you're getting, and send it to support@e-onsoftware.com Keep the VUE file handy; they may want to see it, too. :)

Yeah since WinXP is shipping real soon too they will get lots of e-mails if it's related to the OS. :) I managed to reproduce the problem about 30 times today so I will definately send them an e-mail. Cheers!

Flywaver, I don't know if Microsoft informs it's Beta testers of the different features, but I think you misunderstood my explanation ;) If you right click Vue4.exe you will be able to run Vue under Win9x emulation in compatability mode whilst still in XP...this goes for RC2 as well. Cheers

Hey Cheers, Thanks I didn't know thaat but even in Win98/WinMe Emulation mode it crashed! :( Cheers!

Ohh well not to worry, it was worth a try :( Cheers

Well, I got news from E-On and they asked for the file so I will know what is going on. Maybe it's only my scene that is corrupted...we never know! :) Cheers!

Let us know if you find out anything. :)

Well, I started a new animation with the same scene but with a totally new motion and it rendered all of the 385 frames overnight! :) I will show the link to the final animation later. Cheers!

LOL, how predictable! Computers are so much fun, aren't they? ~%)