log in | register | forums
Show:
Go:
Forums
Username:

Password:

User accounts
Register new account
Forgot password
Forum stats
List of members
Search the forums

Advanced search
Recent discussions
- Git client updated to 0.07 (News:1)
- Archive Edition 27:1 reviewed (News:)
- Rougol April 2024 meeting on monday is Anniversary time (News:1)
- WROCC April 2024 meeting o...changes to our phone lines (News:1)
- April developer 'fireside' chat is on saturday night (News:)
- March 2024 News Summary (News:4)
- WROCC Newsletter Volume 41:11 reviewed (News:)
- WROCC March 2024 meeting o... Hughes and Peter Richmond (News:1)
- Rougol March 2024 meeting on monday with Bernard Boase (News:)
- Drag'n'Drop 13i2 edition reviewed (News:)
Latest postings RSS Feeds
RSS 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.9
Atom 0.3
Misc RDF | CDF
 
View on Mastodon
@www.iconbar.com@rss-parrot.net
Site Search
 
Article archives
Acorn Arcade forums: The Playpen: Crashes Civil 3D does that make you cry
 
  Crashes Civil 3D does that make you cry
  trevj (12:42 12/2/2013)
  sirbod (13:33 12/2/2013)
    trevj (05:46 13/2/2013)
 
Trevor Johnson Message #121902, posted by trevj at 12:42, 12/2/2013
Member
Posts: 660
Apologies for the juvenile expression of frustration in the attached: that's more than once this morning, and several times during the past week. Hanging on for Autodesk's Service Pack 1. Good job I'm well practised with Ctrl-S!
c3d_combi_crash_80pc.jpg 4997x819 561.9KB
c3d_combi_cr...
4997x819
561.9KB
c3d_low_spec.PNG 384x367 13.1KB
c3d_low_spec...
384x367
13.1KB

  ^[ Log in to reply ]
 
Jon Abbott Message #121903, posted by sirbod at 13:33, 12/2/2013, in reply to message #121902
Member
Posts: 563
As you're running on XP, the problem will most likely be a lack of GDI memory and not AutoDesk. AutoDesk will consume large amounts of GDI, so it's going to run out fairly quickly.

Does the Event log report any Heap allocation or user32.dll errors?

You could try increasing the session memory allocation, by running REGEDIT and adding/modifying the following values:

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\SessionViewSize
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 4000000 (this is a hex value)

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\SessionPoolSize
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 3000000 (hex value)

From memory the values aren't there on XP, so you'll have to create them. Just delete them to go back to default values.

If you end up playing around with the values, SessionViewSize needs to be higher than SessionPoolSize.

Before you play though, go to a command prompt and do the following:

CD C:\
TYPE BOOT.INI

And check you don't have "/3GB" or "/PAE" anywhere in the file - I doubt you will, unless someone has been playing, but best to double check all the same.

[Edited by sirbod at 13:34, 12/2/2013]
  ^[ Log in to reply ]
 
Trevor Johnson Message #121906, posted by trevj at 05:46, 13/2/2013, in reply to message #121903
Member
Posts: 660
Thanks for the advice. I'll pass it on and see if IT are inclined to do anything.
  ^[ Log in to reply ]
 

Acorn Arcade forums: The Playpen: Crashes Civil 3D does that make you cry