Aisuru opened this issue on Feb 26, 2012 · 29 posts
ShawnDriscoll posted Mon, 27 February 2012 at 1:35 PM
I always say no to the two questions Vue asks me when it's been restarted from a crash. Safe makes Vue behave worse and lose track of your hardware when you eventually need to use it normally.
Do you have another video card to pop in to try? What is its power requirement? How many watts, etc is your power supply? In the bottom right corner of Vue, you can have it tell you how much Video RAM it is using for your scene. Does it get to a certain number before crashing? Does Vue crash with just a default scene and a boring cube or sphere placed in front of the camera? Or does it only crash if there are zillions of trees covering a mountain terrain? Or does it only crash if the camera is facing towards the zillion trees, and works fine as long has you have the camera pointed up at space?
In other words, see if you can find out if the crash is caused by your video doing its OpenGL drawing (by the way, turn off background drawing in Vue and see if that stops the crashing), or is caused by loading textures across a bad memory location in your video RAM, or is caused by a weak power supply (hardly any Vue users complain about weak power supplies, even those using laptops).
By the way, do you ever see crash messages from Vue? And you have to close the program? Of does the computer shut off before Vue can report a fatality?