Re: 2012 SAP stability (or... not so much...)

2012-04-18 Thread Ben Beckett
Hi I had similar problems and they we solve through switching off, under
Pref data management, Detect corrupted meshes.

Thanks
Ben

On 18 April 2012 15:28, Tim Crowson tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com wrote:

  So... I renamed my User directory. Soft created a new one of course. The
 first thing I did was start adding some of my projects back in the Project
 Manager. I added 5 projects, and as I set my Default project, Softimage
 froze and required me to kill it.

 I'll get familiar with Process Monitor and see if I can learn more about
 what's causing this. Could something in a project's system file cause a
 crash?
 -Tim




 On 4/18/2012 9:19 AM, Tim Crowson wrote:

 Thanks, I'll try renaming my User folder. I have already stripped out
 unnecesary plugins, but there are a few that I still need to use that must
 be kept locally to my User directory.

 I'll see what renaming does.

 -Tim

 On 4/18/2012 6:14 AM, Stephen Blair wrote:

 Hi

 Support hasn't seen any trend in general instability cases for 2012.SAP.
 I would suspect something specific to your situation.

 That post is more about a startup crash.
 Here's an intro to Process 
 Monitor:http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/process-monitor-101/


 You can try running Process Monitor to see what's going on.
 Often I use it to look for conflicts (wrong DLLs, other apps, ...)

 Do you get a chance to send a CER report?

 Did runonce.bat report any errors?

 Try renaming your User folder, so that you are running with the default 
 preferences and settings, and with no extra plugins or workgroups.
 (User folder = C:\Users\blairs\Autodesk\Softimage_2013)

 If you install anything in the Factory install folder (C:\Program 
 Files\Autodesk\Softimage2013), remove it.




 There was a similar thread awhile ago:



 From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
 [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
 softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Len Krenzler
 Sent: March-15-12 12:58 PM
 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
 Subject: Re: 2012 SAP stability

 Hi Adrian,

 I had some similar issues a about a month ago.  In my case this is what 
 solved it.  Turn OFF Threaded Optimization in the Nvidia control panel 
 (assuming you're using Nvidia cards).  This seemed to be causing all sorts of 
 UI related crashes, especially with render region and the rendertree.

 Of course I have no idea if this is the same issue for you but it's worth a 
 try.

 Cheers - Len

 On 3/15/2012 10:40 AM, adrian wyer wrote:
 how's everyone getting on with 2012 SAP?

 just lately we seem to have hit a wall of crashes and scene corruption, and 
 im not sure whether this is caused by our new server, changed working 
 practice or general ropeyness in the software

 artists will be working on scenes, that seem fine, then out of the blue, 
 when, for example, opening a ppg, or a rendertree soft will hang, or just 
 plain disappear!

 once this has happened the scene becomes practically unusable some 
 respite after blowing away the local user folder, but generally crippling to 
 workflow

 this is all on win7x64, wondering whether it's a windows update related 
 issue.

 driving me insane!

 /end rant

 a





 From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
 [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com 
 softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Tim Crowson
 Sent: April-17-12 10:04 PM
 To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com
 Subject: Re: 2012 SAP stability (or... not so much...)

 Thank you Xavier, I'll take a look at these.
 -Tim C.

 On 4/17/2012 8:50 PM, Xavier Lapointe wrote:
 An article from xsisupport that might be related:
 http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2011/08/27/the-case-of-the-missing-registry-values/


 2012/4/17 Xavier Lapointe 
 xl.mailingl...@gmail.commailto:xl.mailingl...@gmail.com 
 xl.mailingl...@gmail.com
 Might be handy:
 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

 2012/4/17 Xavier Lapointe 
 xl.mailingl...@gmail.commailto:xl.mailingl...@gmail.com 
 xl.mailingl...@gmail.com
 I don't know what you've tried so far except runonce and the user's Autodesk 
 folder reset, but I would also suggest to remove all external 
 addons/plugins/workgroup (not provided with Soft), and see if you experience 
 the same crash. If you don't, then you know your problem lies somewhere in 
 there. Having a virgin Autodesk directory would be a good thing too, I've 
 seen crashes with custom UI Layout sometimes, even if they were not in use.

 You could also try any equivalent of strace (linux) on windows ... I think 
 there's one. Might tell you at which point it's crashing.





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 Xavier



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Re: 2012 SAP stability (or... not so much...)

2012-04-17 Thread Xavier Lapointe
Might be handy:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

2012/4/17 Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com

 I don't know what you've tried so far except runonce and the user's
 Autodesk folder reset, but I would also suggest to remove all external
 addons/plugins/workgroup (not provided with Soft), and see if you
 experience the same crash. If you don't, then you know your problem lies
 somewhere in there. Having a virgin Autodesk directory would be a good
 thing too, I've seen crashes with custom UI Layout sometimes, even if they
 were not in use.

 You could also try any equivalent of strace (linux) on windows ... I think
 there's one. Might tell you at which point it's crashing.





-- 
Xavier


Re: 2012 SAP stability (or... not so much...)

2012-04-17 Thread Xavier Lapointe
An article from xsisupport that might be related:

http://xsisupport.wordpress.com/2011/08/27/the-case-of-the-missing-registry-values/



2012/4/17 Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com

 Might be handy:

 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx


 2012/4/17 Xavier Lapointe xl.mailingl...@gmail.com

 I don't know what you've tried so far except runonce and the user's
 Autodesk folder reset, but I would also suggest to remove all external
 addons/plugins/workgroup (not provided with Soft), and see if you
 experience the same crash. If you don't, then you know your problem lies
 somewhere in there. Having a virgin Autodesk directory would be a good
 thing too, I've seen crashes with custom UI Layout sometimes, even if they
 were not in use.

 You could also try any equivalent of strace (linux) on windows ... I
 think there's one. Might tell you at which point it's crashing.





 --
 Xavier




-- 
Xavier