I have just (for the third seperate occasion(sp? '-)) had VUE crash on me when I go to simply resize OR move a rock that I had just loaded!! On the first two tries I thought it was just an overload as they were rather hefty scenes, but this time the rock was loaded to a scene that contained one terrain only!! Never thought I'd need to save 'fore adding a rock, but it looks like it's come to that '-)?!? Any ideas at all out here??? ==steve

oh Gosh! you started your Masters program already? (on Vue Crashes). :-) May be Vue doesn't have the proper drivers for Boston's salty air. :-) Memory problem may be? How about hiding the other layers? Or may be it's time to clean up the OS? :-) Just giving your some pointers buddy. Even though I'm sure you already did all those on your Undergrad program. lol ... Give out your OS & hardware secrets. May be we all together can help you solve this thing once and for all.

Actually, Kazi, I'm carrying a double-Masters course load combining Crashes AND Whining '-)! Wanted to throw Sniveling in there as well, but my advisor cautioned me against it '-)! As for the specs of this otherwise verrry cooperative machine, here goes...I'm running WindowsXPHome on a P4/1.9GhZ/1GigRAM and I have my machine set to defrag every nite/AM at 3AM 'cuz lord only knows that if left to my own devices I'd be lucky to defrag once a year '-)!! Lucky I remember to save now, ya want me to remember to maintain this thing as well?...LOL!! --steve

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Have you run a good RAM diagnostic? See the thread in the link. That's the same specs of my machine except I only have 256M RAM and not much hard drive space left. It's working fine on my system.

Maybe I wasn't specific enough in my original post (gee, what a surprise, eh?!?), so let me try and make myself a little bit clearer. Overall, I am NOT having any problems at all with VUE 4.whatever it is (but it is fully updated)...these problems are occurring only with rocks!!! I can mix materials 'til I'm blue in the face (or until I get a blue material whichever comes first...hehe), I can build 75+Mb scenes, I can load a dozen Posers for cryin' out loud, this is only happening with rocks!! And it's not that it's that big of a deal, but rather it's just the annoyance of it that got me to sniveling in the first place '-)!! But, I do enjoy a good mystery, so I'm still all eyes and ears over here 'midst that salty Boston air '-)! ==steve

Hmm! seems to me you need to check up with the guys at "Boston's Rock Lovers Country Club". :-) I don't think Memory performance has anything to do with this issue. And you certainly got yourself one of the cleanest hard drive in the East Coast. :-) Sounds like you got yourself a bug. It can't be run time error, since it's happening only with rocks! Could be the some writing error occured when you installed Vue. But then you have to have this probelm on Blue rocks from the very beginning. I don't know man this one is tricky! May be Guitta & the others might have some Voodoo tricks in their sleves. Which I would love to learn myself as well. :-)

Sounds like you got yourself a bug...<< Sniffle, sniffle, cough, cough...nothing a little bed rest won't cure, my friend! While you gurus are figgerin' this one out, I think I'll take this opportunity to clean out my Poser libraries and see what I can go and screw up over there...LOL!! ==steve

Spider1313: I've had the exact same problem over the last two weeks or so, everything works perfectly (well as perfect as vue 4 is) except the rocks, if I try to resize or worse group and resize, then the whole thing comes tumbling down. I'm on a 1.7ghz 1gb mem running XP pro. I've just got hold of VuePro so I don't think I'll be messing about with Vue4 for a while, but I feel for ya.

Hummm,I had all those crashes whenever I resized anything of size too. But I replaced my video card and win2k promptly died. Worked for 2 days trying to get it back forunately I was able go in using DOS and save my data to another drive. Then reformated and reinstalled everything. Now no more crash time. OK what did it? the new video card or the cleansing? You might try the cleansing first it's cheaper except for time

Me too, with the rocks! Vue 4 HATES ROCKS, I tell ya!
I'm on a state of the art Mac, great vid card, enough ram to send home to momma, and dual GIG of speed. I just did a clean wipe of the entire disk and a clean install of everything.
Rocks are e-on glitch. So were having multiple material windows open, but they finally fixed that. I also have probs with LARGE LAND MASSES...Vue 4 does not like you to move them, period.
But, it is a magnificent piece of software - when you can get it to work.

Holly

Oh boy, the line's getting longer now! At least I'm not alone in this "Case of the Unmoveable Rocks"!! Of course, that doesn't get us any closer to solving this little enigma, now does it '-)?!? Maybe I'll have to break down and e-mail e-on and give them something other than their VUEPro problems to take a stab at ;-)!! For ggrace, I can't see getting a new video card just for VUE rocks and I really don't want to spend the time on a thorough overhaul right now, so I guess I'm just stuck for the time being having to remember to save before undertaking such a massive scene change as moving a rock...LOL!!! For proserose, I can move/resize large terrains set to 2048x2048, it's just the blasted rocks that are causing this craziness! --steve

Steve, I've not read through everything written here but I think you may need to update your Graphics card, not necessarily get a new one. Make sure you have the latest driver for it. I think you may have a nice surprise after doing so. One thing I did see tho, "Actually, Kazi, I'm carrying a double-Masters course load combining Crashes AND Whining '-)! Wanted to throw Sniveling in there as well, but my advisor cautioned me against it '-)!" LOL! Now why does that not surprise me!! Kissies to ya!