Hi guys,

I have a small problem, am running a Ge Force 8600 GT video Card 512 Ram.. now when I have my resolution at max which is 1920 X 1080 A:M would crash right after rending an image is completed... If I drop the resolution to 720 X 1280 it does not crash at all...


Am using the ToonRender + Bloom so as soon as the rendering is completed and the composite window is about to pop up A:M crashes...


Anyone know why this is happening? it's very hard to work on 720 X 1280 cuz everything is so fuzzy.. any help would be great..


My video drivers are updated to current version..

Hm... you are talking about Realtime-Rendering, not Final-Rendering here, right?
I am a bit unsure because you say "after rendering an image"...

For final-rendering: useable RAM in your machine determines, if you can render very high resolutions or not. For more than 2/3 GB you will however need a 64-bit-OS. In newer versions
A:M can use more RAM on 64 bit-Systems for renderings or for particle-simualtions, etc. (I think it means it can use more RAM all over, but these will benefit from it the most).

For realtime-rendering: The only thing that would come to my mind is: Change the driver in A:M. Try OpenGL or Direct3d and see if it is working better.
(can be done at Options > Global).

Hope that helps...
*Fuchur*

Hi Fuchur

Am referring to Final-rendering! I posted a pic and as u can see the render is at 100% then I get that error message!

OpenGL or Direct3d equals the same result..


Click to view attachment

But this is talking about your monitor screen res, right?

yes Rob..

Maybe it has something to do with this issue?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_8_Series#8800_GT

"Compatibility issue with PCI-E 1.0a

Shortly after the release, an incompatibility issue with older PCI Express 1.0a motherboards was unmasked. When using the PCI Express 2.0 compliant 8800 GT or 8800 GTS 512 in some motherboards with PCI Express 1.0a slots, the card would not produce any display image, but the computer would often boot (with the fan on the video card spinning at a constant 100%). The incompatibility is mostly with motherboards with VIA PCI-E 1.0a chipsets.[citation needed]

Some graphics cards had a workaround, which was to re-flash the graphics card's BIOS with an older GEN1 BIOS. .... [But] flashing of the video card BIOS voided the warranties of most video card manufacturers (if not all) thus making it a less-than-optimum way of getting the card to work properly. A workaround to this is to flash the BIOS of the motherboard to the latest version, which depending on the manufacturer of the motherboard, may contain a fix. In relation to this compatibility issue, the high numbers of cards reported as DOA (as much as 13-15%) were believed to be inaccurate. When it was revealed that the G92 8800 GT and 8800 GTS 512MB were going to be designed with PCI Express 2.0 connections, NVIDIA claimed that all cards would have full backwards-compatibility, but failed to mention that this was only true for PCI Express 1.1 motherboards. The source for the BIOS-flash did not come from NVIDIA or any of their partners, but rather ASRock, a mainboard producer, who mentioned the fix in one of their motherboard FAQs. ASUSTek, sells the 8800 GT with their sticker, posted a newer version of their 8800 GT BIOS on their website, but did not mention that it fixed this issue. EVGA also posted a new bios to fix this issue.[20]"

Thanks alot for the info Holmes I was not aware that this was an issue!..

I guess I will have to look into a new card...

btw, you say this happens in 15j+... you've tried the same thing in a previous version and it doesn't?

it happens on older versions also, hence why I upgraded thinking it would help but same issue...

Problem Solved!

I found a roll-back driver that Nvidia recommends as a result of the issues with the 8600 GT chips........Seems to work find now.

yay. I have another program that is semi functional with the current drivers so I had to roll back. Took me a year to figure out the problem tho.