i understand, but is this something i have to live with, or is there some kind of workaround? like setting the win7 "not responding" threshold higher … dont get me wrong, i understand that softimage has to process all that crap i told it to do (siming, caching ..) but that not responding, not able to stop or the worst case not displaying/ caching when playing forward is not acceptable. i use softimage as fx tool these days and mostly just waiting for the gui to come back is exhausting.
btw. updating the quadro driver helped a bit, the window switching is gone. Am 17.04.2013 um 15:35 schrieb Luc-Eric Rousseau <[email protected]>: > it's not necessarily unusual to get the "unresponsive" message if > you're doing "heavier sims and/ or try to cache" It might also worsen > if the file I/O is expensive, for example if you're writing to the > network of a compress/encrypted drive. The UI is not running in a > separate thread in XSI, so when it runs a sim it's taking breaks every > once in a while to process messages (especially for the Cancel button > on the progress bar), but those pauses can be too far in-between if > each frame is heavy. > > Windows's window manager is putting up that message for any > application that stops processing windows messages for more than a > couple of seconds. It doesn't mean the application is hung and needs > to be killed. It just means it's hasn't redrawn its window and > processed mouse messages for a while. > > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Sebastian Kowalski <[email protected]> wrote: >> ive updated the gpu driver, lets see how softimage behaves today.. >> cant really repro that, kinda random behavior. >> its a brand new hp z820 i am working on. but i had this flaws for some time >> now, on different machines. >> >> well get back at you >> s. >> >> Am 17.04.2013 um 04:02 schrieb Chris Chia <[email protected]>: >> >>> Hi Sebastian, >>> Could you give us some info? Like any repro steps? And what's your machine >>> specs? >>> Also have you updated your graphics driver and cleared the XSI preference >>> folder? >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> Chris >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] >>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sebastian >>> Kowalski >>> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 10:28 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: unresponsive under win7 >>> >>> it doesnt matter if I have aero switched on or not, soft is unresponive, >>> switching to other apps in the background or freezing up when running some >>> heavier (even when they are running only on one thread) sims and/ or try to >>> cache. and sometimes its not even writing the caches. its not crashing, it >>> is coming back at some point (end of framerange) is this something only my >>> side, or is somebody experiencing the same? >>> >>> its so frustrating! >
