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GMax keeps crashing (Read 829 times)

Aug 16^th, 2009 at 12:32am

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Now what???

"The application has run out of memory and will now close"

I have 4 Gig of RAM in this confuser. How could it possibly run out of memory? There is more here than XP will even recognize. This machine has run perfectly for the last year. Now all of a sudden, Gmax keeps crashing. All the other programs are fine. So I tried un-installing Gmax and re-loading it. That didn’t work. Then I reverted to an earlier XP update (to before the problem started). That didn’t work. So now what do I do? Any ideas anyone?

Harold
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Reply #1 - Aug 16^th, 2009 at 4:02am

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This happens when the memory Gmax uses (around 1 GB, I guess) is overloaded by a texture or image that uses too much of the available amount of RAM. Are you using background textures? If so, when you zoom in, disable the textures at some point before the message arrives.

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Reply #2 - Aug 16^th, 2009 at 11:55pm

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Better still, don't use "background textures" at all. All they do is eat memory like candy.

Apply your background view to a simple planar object instead.

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Reply #3 - Aug 19^th, 2009 at 1:17am

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Good evening,
I use 3d max and it dumps all of your redundent data out of your cache every hour or even less depending on how much data you are creating. G-max is probably useing up way to much "virtual" memory and your memory stack it getting used up too fast. Adobe Photo shop has this same problem...an easy way around this, if your regy hasnt been corrupted... is to save constantly, once you save the cache is flushed out and its emply again. If this continues you will have to reinstall but not untill you do a system 32 flush and clean.
Windows has some very interesting quirks that make other progies go nuts. If none of this works. You can go to fsds..lol Just kidding.. Tongue

Or just re format you hd. Embarrassed

Some times the Registry gets too full of redundencies. If you clean it up that might help out too as registry redundencies gobble up virtual memory like crazy as the window OS kernal is constantly reading the data over and over trying to verify it and this just burns up v-memory. Another thing that could work is grab "Kill it all" I use this and it knocks down alot of programs that run in the back ground that could use all of your V-mem. Out side of all of this You could have a trojen... Shocked

So a registry scan and a system 32 scan will ned to be done.

Hope this helps and gets you back on track with your projects! Cheesy

Tom/Crashwoody

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Cr-1 Software Ltd. Home of top quality add on mods for Microsoft flight Simulators. Let the good Times Fly!

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Reply #4 - Aug 20^th, 2009 at 6:50am

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Sounds more like a problem with your scene file.
Either it´s broken or way to large.
How large is it ? (MB)
Did you maybe import stuff from a CAD software ?
Maybe an object or vertex that is to far away from the scene root ?
Also look at your Taskmanager to see how much RAM Gmax uses.
If you are using a non modified XP32 Max will usually crash at
~2GB Memory use.
If you are using XP32 no matter how much RAM you have it will
only allocate 2GB of RAM to a certain Application anyway.
You can extend this to 3GB by using the 3GB Switch.
http://www.vfxpedia.com/index.php?title=FAQ/3GB_Switch
(not necessary if you are on a 64 bit OS)
You can also clear unused memory in 3dsmax
(not sure if Gmax supports maxscript)
with a simple command
gc()
Just type it into your maxscript listener and hit enter.

Usually building realtime models shouldn´t blowup a scene that
large to run out of memory. If you suspect something wrong
with your scenefile, you should create a new file an merge
object by object into that one.

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