3D program crashes

Omac · 17 May 2006 at 19:49

Some advice please.

Recently my favourite 3d program (bryce5) has been crashing while loading some big textures.

Is this due to my odd memory set up?

Im using geil sticks. Slot 1 & 3 512mb and slots 2 & 4 1gb

These at 3.4.4.7

I dont overclock so what ever helps is good but as i do a lot of 3d rendering with 200-500mb scenes this usually require between 500 and 1.5Gb just to load.

thanks!

Minstadave · 17 May 2006 at 23:10

Omac said:
Some advice please.

Recently my favourite 3d program (bryce5) has been crashing while loading some big textures.

Is this due to my odd memory set up?

Im using geil sticks. Slot 1 & 3 512mb and slots 2 & 4 1gb

These at 3.4.4.7

I dont overclock so what ever helps is good but as i do a lot of 3d rendering with 200-500mb scenes this usually require between 500 and 1.5Gb just to load.

thanks!

You need to check out your system stability mate.

First run Prime95s "Blend" torture test for a good few hours (12 if you can have it going for that long).

The you need to run memtest86+ for an hour or so to see if you're getting memory errors.

Jimbo Mahoney · 18 May 2006 at 14:05

Minstadave said:
First run Prime95s "Blend" torture test for a good few hours (12 if you can have it going for that long).

I'd advocate using Small FFT and Large FFT instead of blend. I find one is usually less stable than the other and if it's Large FFT, it points to RAM / memory controller (if AMD64) whereas Small FFT errors point to CPU / memory controller (AMD64).

Omac · 18 May 2006 at 16:11

fft? eh? Sorry you lost me

My little X2 is usually on 24/7 for 3-4 days reboot then back on again. i originally only had my 1gb of geail running at 400Mhz but as i added a further 2gb that run slower im thinking my timings would have something to do with it.

im still running at dual400 with a latency of 71ns according to everest. Slow i guess.