Program Freezing

BLACKWATCH

Mechanical Engineer
One for the Techies among you :)

Last night I had a problem with the program freezing.
Today while in surveyor mode, it has done it 4 or 5 times, very annoying :mad:

The report box when hitting the button to get back to windows says it is an illegal call by "rendering.dll"

Would this have something to do with a shortage of memory ?

I`m running UTC

I have 512mb of ram & a Gforce 6200 card.
Processor is an AMD Athlon 2000+

Any suggestions welcome. (it`s never done it before)
 
One for the Techies among you :)

Last night I had a problem with the program freezing.
Today while in surveyor mode, it has done it 4 or 5 times, very annoying :mad:

The report box when hitting the button to get back to windows says it is an illegal call by "rendering.dll"

Would this have something to do with a shortage of memory ?

I`m running UTC

I have 512mb of ram & a Gforce 6200 card.
Processor is an AMD Athlon 2000+

Any suggestions welcome. (it`s never done it before)

A new larger layout perhaps?

Adding a couple of gigs of memory wouldn't do any harm, also try adding an APC UPS, they have been known to make a number of intermitant problems disappear.

Cheerio John
 
Thanks John, yes my layout is getting quite a handful now, power supply is well up to the task, though I can only afford to replace things slowly, will have to wait until memory is upgraded.

Kev.
 
Thanks John, yes my layout is getting quite a handful now, power supply is well up to the task, though I can only afford to replace things slowly, will have to wait until memory is upgraded.

Kev.

A UPS is not a power supply. The problem is voltage drops when the fridge starts etc. An APC UPS will remove the brown outs which makes things unreliable and can corrupt things on the hard drive. Some other UPSes will do the same thing but check the specs first.

Cheerio John
 
Make sure that you've got the latest video drivers for your card. I've got a 6200SE and was having the same problem until I downloaded the latest driver for the card.
 
Ok, well that discounts that problem, we don`t suffer the voltage drops here, like they do on the N.American continent.
Our problem is voltage spiking, that`s why us Brits all run voltage protectors between the mains & machine.

Have just purchased Trs2004 Passenger Edition, will this be more stable ?

Kev.
 
Make sure that you've got the latest video drivers for your card. I've got a 6200SE and was having the same problem until I downloaded the latest driver for the card.

Just checked, latest drivers already used. (93.71)

Thanks anyway.

Kev.
 
Ok, well that discounts that problem, we don`t suffer the voltage drops here, like they do on the N.American continent.
Our problem is voltage spiking, that`s why us Brits all run voltage protectors between the mains & machine.

Have just purchased Trs2004 Passenger Edition, will this be more stable ?

Kev.

Stick a voltmeter on then watch it when the fridge starts up. Low voltage problems are not restricted to North America, it also depends what eles is around. Arc welders, heavy manufacturing, mind you there isn't that much left now in the UK, have been known to cause problems. If you know some one with an APC I think there is a way to record the voltage seen by the UPS over time, might give you a clearer idea if there any problems.

Voltage peaks shouldn't be a problem by the way, most good power supplies can cope with over voltage spikes of twice the line voltage without batting an eye lid.

Cheerio John
 
Ok, well that discounts that problem, we don`t suffer the voltage drops here, like they do on the N.American continent.
Our problem is voltage spiking, that`s why us Brits all run voltage protectors between the mains & machine.

Have just purchased Trs2004 Passenger Edition, will this be more stable ?

Kev.

Given that a goodly amount of our power generation capacity has been switched off to reduce over-capacity and thus increase profit margins, we now run things a bit closer to the wire than normal. Brownouts are more likely now than before the CEGB was privatised.

A good quality UPS should take out Voltage spike and cover for brownouts and nothing can beat a set of good quality backups either...

regards

Harry
 
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