It hangs if I do an insert vertex object, it also will hang when I attempt to edit a vertex object.

Whole story:

I have C6 Pro and installed C7 Pro and then 7.1.1 update.

I was attempting to do jetbirds modeling katis character tutorial. I had an empty new scene and inserted a vertex object and C7 Pro locked up. I restarted the computer, tried it again same thing, I let it sit awhile in case it needed to work something out. Eventually had to kill the app.

I reset the preference just in case.  I wiped the tmp files also.

I tried in C6 Pro and it worked fine.

I did the Fruit and Bowl tutorial a little while back with just C7 Pro (not the 7.1.1 update) and things where working fine. I was able to go into the vertex room and do the section on a vertex object for the tutorial just fine. Now that I have 7.1.1 Carrara Locks up when I try to go into the vertex room with the same file.

Any suggestions before I open a bug report, I figured its something here on this machine, if this was a general bug in C7.1.1 then everyone would be screaming but I can't seem to get around it, and am dead in the water using C7.

I had a lot of model and videos using 7.1.1 (one new today about model inVM room) and didint get this error. Since version 7 has a new openGL engine (a better one), do you have your video drives updated?
Try to add a primitive and convert to VM to see whats happen too... very weird thing...

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Quote - I had a lot of model and videos using 7.1.1 (one new today about model inVM room) and didint get this error. Since version 7 has a new openGL engine (a better one), do you have your video drives updated?
Try to add a primitive and convert to VM to see whats happen too... very weird thing...

I updated my video drivers a little while back, before I had done the fruit bowl tutorial.

I did that with the primitive and convert to Vertex in the modeling room soon as I told it to convert it locked up.

There is a slight version update from Nvidia I am going to try, to see if it makes a difference.  

It locked up Carrara Hard, and I have to have windows kill it.  

I will post if the new drivers made a difference.

-Milo

Update:

I installed the latest video drivers and it made no difference.

I think that next step is to install Carrara again...

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just tried that, still the same thing.  I am going to have to go back to 7.0  I submitted a bug report though don't know what good that will do.  is yours 7.1.1 or 7.1 in the about box?

In the Splash screen at startup.

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Thanks

I am really hosed now.  I went back to 7.0 and the exact same thing, even the file I worked on before now no longer works.

I simply cannot go into the modeling room with a vertex object.

So its not 7.1.1 but now I am at a total loss as to what to do.  I made sure my drivers where the latest nvidia ones.

The application hangs, shows CPU pegging on one of my cores.

anyways there is the update.. I will update the bug report as well

I think since the extensions are version dependent there should be some kind of check.

Do you have a plugin outdated?

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So far I have not been able to get anything worth while out Carrara7 Pro. I keep getting Memory Alocation Errors from some of the lightest scenes. I think the whole thing needs serious work on DAZ's part. I will continue with 6 Pro until something is done with 7 Pro. Just my thoughts and experience expressed here, so I don't think you have done anything wrong or that it is your drivers.

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Quote - Do you have a plugin outdated?

I think that was it, these are the 3 that i pulled out effectively that were 'left' over from un-installs. The shoestring shader is a beta, so I will see if there is another out there.  

01/10/2009  10:15 PM           241,664 Cloth.mcx
12/02/2008  07:10 PM         2,859,008 Shoestring_shaders.mcx
01/09/2009  10:47 PM           180,736 SimpleLightingModel.mcx

so I will dig some more on those and see about the updates.  I could check to see which one it is thats doing it if anyone is curious.

Thanks again for letting me bounce things off and the suggestions.

Quote - So far I have not been able to get anything worth while out Carrara7 Pro. I keep getting Memory Alocation Errors from some of the lightest scenes. I think the whole thing needs serious work on DAZ's part. I will continue with 6 Pro until something is done with 7 Pro. Just my thoughts and experience expressed here, so I don't think you have done anything wrong or that it is your drivers.

I am sorry to hear that you are having those problem, so far I haven't had any of that and it turned out my problem was a bad plugin.  

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Yeah, me too. I spent the money for the upgrade because I really like Carrara and  now I am back to using 6 Pro. But on the bright side 6 Pro is almost flawless on my system and it is what I learned to use Carrara with, so it is the old glove that fits so well.

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I had one big problem in the render one time... I simple moved all my plugins (added after installation), and have to copy one by one back until find what plugin was causing all the problem. Now everything works fine, I found the plugin that slowdown the system.

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good idea.. I put the shoestring ones back and it wasn't the culprit at least.