Yesterday I got this message when i was working on a project in Vue(See Pic). I have been working on this model for a few days now without a hiccup, but last night after a few minutes vue just spontaneously crashed on me. This happened two more times but now I am able to work on it again. I have heard about many strange things in Vue but this is the first it has ever crashed on me. Every thing seems to be fine now but I was just wonerding what could have caused this?

That is not necessarily caused by Vue. It is an error with the way windows accesses memory. I have two PCs at work (desktop and laptop) and they both randomly generate that error message, regardless which application is being used. My guess is that there is something in your system (or in mine) that is easting memory slowly in background, which makes the memory unavailable without warning - in your case, Vue was the one who crashed.

You may want to check. BTW I like all you guys that come here and say But it crashed and then give no details what so ever. Like Hello? How are we suppose to figure it out? You're sitting looking at the screen and you can't figure it out and you know everything about that machine, what's on it and what you where trying to do when it crashed. We don't know anything about it and you went right out of your way to inform us. Is the computer painted black? Does it have 666 engraved on it anyware? Check in your computer, I'm curious see if there is a file called rscmpt.exe somewhere on windows c drive. I've noticed issues with this file and am wondering if it's causing wide spread instability. One thing turn that stupid preview window off set it so it only updates when you click on it. Nothing like having 50 programs running at once. If it's really irritating (crashing)turn off open gl and go to the more stable plain old wireframe style. See if it crashes then. Chances are something have overwritten that part of memory and now the program tries to read it and the info it stored there is missing. When your running programs like this save, save, save and save again. Get used to it when working on big projects. There is too much stuff running on most computers now days and if you don't know how to turn it off you better learn how to save lots. Like I can ask silly questions too. How come my car broke?

Pete- I searched for rscmpt.exe on my c drive and got no results. I guess I should have asked what does the error message mean, not what caused it. Who knows. As for too many programs running, the only ones running were Vue, Norton, and the usual system stuff. My Pc hardly ever crashes or freaks out on me so i just thought this was weird. It's working fine now so no big deal i guess. -And yes my computer is black, but no 666'S to be found

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ha Ha well that's more info than you gave us the first time. Chances are the data got spooled to the drive cause what you are working on is or looks large. That should not make a difference cause it should just go to the drive and retreave it. It's possible that you got a glitch that is in the file. Like it got corrupted somehow. It happens sometimes, It happened to me once. Well actually it's not that big a file. Look I had a real nice computer and it could run open gl no problem but I still turned it off. It just makes things work so much smoother. See I don't have Norton running in the background cause I figure hey I might as well have a virus or worm running in the background. I know when I download things and it is then that I start it up and check the files. My computer can only be infected by the web but then again I don't have outlook or IE or Active X and all the rest even MSN can give you the dose now so almost no viruses worms can even run here. Even the cable guys now are installing spy ware on your puter all that stuff is running people dont know. I'd suggest going downloading AdAware and removing the billion different programs running in the background. Don't be silly make a backup before you remove stuff. It allows you to backup before you remove it. Some things don't remove well. I fix computers and when I scan them I find some times 300 proccesses running in the background. People are wondering why there computer is crawling and crashing. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand why when you find them all.

Not finding that file is good news cause that file is bad news. I'm still trying to figure it out. I've wrote the manufacturer somewhere in Europe that has info on it but have yet to recieve a reply. I turned it off here. It was getting in the way here. It's part of the graphics card and since I can't get rid of it I'll be returning the card for a different model.

Ok ill check out AdAware. My pc probably could use a good ol' cleaning. Ill download it later and see what happens. Thanks for the help.

Let me know how many you find to fill my curiosity Want to make a friendly bet? I say a complete computer scan you'll find over 100 of em. Not that I'm paranoid or anything but it's MY COMPUTER, Not there's. They want to run something here they can pay me 100 bucks a hour computer time. I've only found one miserable spy package so far that kinda could break your computer on removal. They got so many complaints and lawsuits I'm sure they have fixed it now. But backup is best.

Consider Vue as you would a pack mule. If you load the animal up with too much material and objects, you'll break its back.

Most of problems I experience with Vue are memory related (not enough of it), or processor/thread related (too many draw threads conflicting with other processes).

You should, as Pete said, turn off the preview auto-update. Second, use wireframe box drawing mode on objects when things start slowing down instead of the slower drawing modes.

Charles

Just got the same message. I tried to render an animation, vue rendered the first image, then stop. When I tried again that message popped up.... And yes it is a vue bug.. Just have to find out how..

No it's a XP bug ! I don't get those stupid errors here. All though I got just yesterday a private message and his problemn was a Norton bug. This guy was running Norton too. Alekssander you running Norton?

Its a vue bug, it appears only in one scene. I loaded up the previous version of the scene, then did the same thing and voila, it worked. Don't use Norton..... "I don't get those stupid errors here." Maybe your not trying hard enough?

I just remembered that once when I re-opened my scene that the mover timeline appeared. My picture is not animated in any way(no motion or material animation) but the timeline said that an entire group had some type of object animation anyway. I just closed the timeline and continued working. Then shortly after, if i remember correct Vue crashed. Maybe a coincidence??? I don't know.

Your trying too hard actually your running Xp so you don't have to try near hard enough. I don't have Mover so ya got me. Once you start a animation Vue never forgets BTW. So always save a original.