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Subject: Mac vs. Carrara: Open & Save Crashes

thirteener opened this issue on Feb 23, 2002 · 3 posts
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thirteener ( ) posted Sat, 23 February 2002 at 12:16 PM · edited Mon, 06 January 2025 at 6:41 AM

Submitted for the Carrara General Knowledge / Live-And-Learn file:
Subcategory Mac vs. Carrara File:

I was having a problem with Carrara crashing at Open and Save dialogs. Specifically, C would open one file, then crash as I opened a second file. Or I would open a file, work on a shader, try to attach a texture map and crash as I pressed the Open button. Or I would work on a file, render, save the render (once), then crash if I tried to save-as (twice). I developed work-arounds for all of these, thinking it was a bug. At each crash Norton Crash Guard reported it as a "Bus Error Exception", making me think I just need to give C more memory (but it's taken all I have). I finally got around to troubleshooting it as an extension conflict - which it was.

Long story short, C conflicts with the Navigation 1.0.1 extension of Mac OS 8.1. This was probably fixed in OS 8.6, or OS 9, or X. Don't laugh at me, I'm still working with a 8500 with added G3/300 processor. I just wanted to share this because somebody, somewhere may have the same problem.

PAGZone ( ) posted Sun, 24 February 2002 at 11:32 PM

Good info! Just curious are you afraid to upgrade to 9? Or is it a money thing? The reason I ask is that even with your hardware you will see a noticable stability and performace change by upgrading to 9.2. I don't think you can still buy 9.2 at retail, but if you by OSX then you get 9.2 full version included. Depending on your G3 card, you can use a driver to make 10.1 work on your system just fine. The bottom line is that 9.2.x is much more stable then os8.x ever was. Regards, PAGZone

thirteener ( ) posted Mon, 25 February 2002 at 7:36 PM

The reason is stubbornness, really. I'm not going to upgrade the OS (again) until I upgrade the hardware, and I keep putting that off. That depends on balancing the purchase of a new system with the rest of my life - and you know, of course, I'd have to get the dual 1Ghz G4.

Then again, maybe the reason is also sentamentality. This 8500 has been through a lot. The plastic front is discolored; the fan is noisy and the 2nd drive is noisier; I've taken it apart and put it back together many, many times and it still works.

Aw, who am I kidding. The reason is money.

-Thirteener

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