Hello everyone, Maybe someone can help me here. I finally broke down and upgraded to Carrara 3(3.04). So far though it has been for not. The think crashes everytime I try to play with the textures on objects. The preview window seems to be the source. The error is nvopengl.dll faults. I have played with preferences for OpenGL, shader editor. Have the lasted updates for video card. If this is product, so far I'm not too impressed, and not going to spend more money to upgrade again. Because so far I'm out the money for what appears to be a non-functional product. The technical support replay is guoted below. I guess at this point I have opened my self for some critque. So feel free to flame me. :) Yea I know I should upgrade to XP, but the system I have will just barely support XP, so a new system at this time is just a future thing that I can not afford right now. 'We just spoke on the phone about the OpenGL issues that you are having and what I recommend you do is download Carrara 4 Demo from our website and see if that works for you. There were a lot of issues with Carrara 3 and Open GL so trying the demo will let you know if you should upgrade or not. I will further look in to this issue and contact you if I find anything out.' System - Win98SE All updates, 1.2Ghz, 512Mb, Nividia FX5200 video card.

Hi,

I seem to remember an issue back in the C3 days from the Nvidia card I was using. The problem popped up when I had the Nvidia drivers set to force full screen antialiasing. If I launched Carrara and used OpenGL in the 3dView within seconds I'd get a BSOD. You may want to try setting the nvidia control panel so that the application decides for FSAA. If want to get fancy, you can also set up profiles so that it works that way for Carrara, but still does AA for your games.

If that doesn't work, the software renderer is certainly usable. I still use that today on C4 and C5 beta for much of my work because I work over remote desktop to my laptop.

Good Luck,
Eric Winemiller
Digital Carvers Guild
Plug-ins for Carrara
http://digitalcarversguild.com

You have two problems. 1) You're using an Nvidia FX5200 video card with Win98SE. 2) You're using Carrara 3 with Win98SE. Upgrading to WinXP Home SP2, like I did, will forever fix your Carrara 3+ crashes. I use a PIII-1000MHz 1024MB ATI Radeon 8500 video system at home.

C3 on radeon 9600xt in xp seems ok. win98SE is ok for somethings, but the video driver issues are just worse for many products. The architecture of the system is so diff...not to mention mem leaks and error handling.

Thanks all for the input. Tried your suggestions Eric. Nothing seems to work. I understand these things happen. Will consider replacing my video card, I guess. As of this time though I'm a little disappointed. After seeing some of the other posts on this forum though, I don't think I will waste more money upgrading to C4 at least until I can get a new system.

Bump your RAM up to 1GB and put WindowsXP on it. Carrara and your video card will work great then.