Crash after a few minutes of rendering

Wed Mar 16, 2011 7:52 pm

It crashed again with the resolution of 875 x 575px.

I hardly can believe that I'm the only one Win XP user, there must be alot of other XP-users having that "timeout-problem", don't you think so ?

Is there nothing I can do against it ?

Kind regards
Alain

radiance · Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:03 am

Alain wrote:It crashed again with the resolution of 875 x 575px.

I hardly can believe that I'm the only one Win XP user, there must be alot of other XP-users having that "timeout-problem", don't you think so ?

Is there nothing I can do against it ?

Kind regards
Alain

Hi,

unfortunately not, XP does not allow to change this behaviour,
i would recommend upgrading with win7 to fix this...
XP is now nearly 11 years old...

Radiance

Sat Mar 19, 2011 8:10 am

...but XP does it's job very good.
I guess Win 7 uses more (unecessary) hardwareresources, I have not seen any useful advandages in Win 7 (Examples: The new File explorer is very confusing compared to XP (at work I've aready installed "free commander" because it does what it has to do

), the new mac-like "super searchfunction" does not find files that should be found,...). OK you can say I'm just to stupid to know how to use Win 7

...maybe I should install linux ?

Kind regards
Alain

Sat Mar 19, 2011 9:42 pm

Alain wrote:...but XP does it's job very good.
I guess Win 7 uses more (unecessary) hardwareresources, I have not seen any useful advandages in Win 7 (Examples: The new File explorer is very confusing compared to XP (at work I've aready installed "free commander" because it does what it has to do ), the new mac-like "super searchfunction" does not find files that should be found,...). OK you can say I'm just to stupid to know how to use Win 7

...maybe I should install linux ?

Kind regards
Alain

Well, the driver model has changed a lot between Windows XP and Windows Vista/Windows 7. So expect more and more problem in the future with Windows XP. That's just the way it is.

Cheers,
Marcus

Sun Mar 20, 2011 8:09 am

Ok, but then you should mention "Windows XP is not recommended"

Kind regards
Alain

radiance · Sun Mar 20, 2011 10:05 pm

It works fine if you have a 2nd GPU for octane, which does not have a display attached to it, so XP is useable.
As there is no display watchdog timeout registry key, you cannot prevent it from closing octane if it uses your GPU with a display attached to it for more than a few seconds...

If you want to continue using XP, you could get a cheap nvidia display GPU, use it as your primary adapter with your monitor(s) connected to it,
and leave your grunty GPU headless for rendering with octane, this will also give you a smooth/useable desktop while rendering.

Radiance

Mon Mar 21, 2011 7:57 am

Alain wrote:...

...maybe I should install linux ?

Kind regards
Alain

YES, just do it!
use linux! linux is slim and fast.
i love it since the first day i installed it.
win7 and its new "fancy" features like the browser is a pain imo. -very macadized:(
i made a dualboot system win7/ubuntu. most times ubuntu is up:) win just for a few programms which are only available for win..

btw i used xp32/octane for a while and never experienced any time outs using one gtx470..

cheers dave

Mon Mar 21, 2011 11:58 am

@dave

I'm just trying to install Ubuntu on a dual boot.
Having some problems to install a root filesystem partition for Ubuntu (I used the Windows Installer) but I'm sure I'll solve the problems and I hope it's worth the work

Kind regards
Alain

Tue Apr 05, 2011 11:15 am

Ok, I gave up to install Ubuntu. Had problems to install the Masterbootsector. It's because I have an old IDE Harddrive connected to a SATA (by an adapter). And the Ubuntu installwizard does not recognise my OS and Harddrive correct. Wasted to mutch time -> ordered Win7 and hope it helps

BUT, I discovered, that when I turn off the Windowx XP Screensaver Octane doesn't crash anymore.

Kind regards
Alain

radiance · Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:28 am

Alain wrote:Ok, I gave up to install Ubuntu. Had problems to install the Masterbootsector. It's because I have an old IDE Harddrive connected to a SATA (by an adapter). And the Ubuntu installwizard does not recognise my OS and Harddrive correct. Wasted to mutch time -> ordered Win7 and hope it helps

BUT, I discovered, that when I turn off the Windowx XP Screensaver Octane doesn't crash anymore.

Kind regards
Alain

It's always best to disable screensavers with octane, as they usually use 3D graphics, which can tax the GPU and cause stability problems with drivers...

Radiance