Hi Jim,

Once I had Vue 6 Infinite crashing during rendering and it was cused by CPU overheating.  (Strangely other versions of Vue rendered the same scene without crash on same computer, also no other software crashed).  After I cleaned up CPU radiator, Vue 6 rendering crashes stopped.

However rendering crash can be caused by something in the scene. Then it Vue will crash at the same moment every time you render it.   CPU overheating crashes happened at random.

You should check if your CPU has good cooling, check CPU temperature when rendering (there are dedicated software for that - probably you should get some with your motherboard)

You can try to assign les CPU cores to Vue - you can do it with Windows Task Manager (example from Windows XP 64):

 

Another reason for crashes can be memmory modules running at too high speed. You shouldn't use any acceleration to your system when rendering in Vue, and check if memory modules have been certified for your motherboard  and that they run at nominal speed.  You can also try to slow down your system and chek if it helps.

Anyway, Vue is very crashing software, so crashes happens quite often, even if your computer is perfectly OK. 

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