Ok now this is really frustating

**Helavagal** · 02-13-2006, 04:30 PM

I have done alot of changes to the plan. This goes with a thread that I had put out last week. CA was shutting itself down without even a warning. Now, (after a clent found this) I have discovered on Thursday of last week when my CA was doing this, that I might as well not done anything because EVERYTHING went back to before CA shut itself down. Is your CA this unreliable? And why is it only my v10 and not the v9.5?

PLEASE please help!

**Gary Doski** · 02-13-2006, 05:24 PM

Hi Angela,
Does it shut down with other plans or is it just the one plan?
If it is just this plan, the plan file might be corrupted. You mentioned you have made many changes to the plan, depending on what you did & how you did it could have affected the plan.
I think you will find most people will get a crash once in a while.

But overall I found it is very stable

**dparsley** · 02-13-2006, 06:08 PM

I can all most gurantee a crash every time I do a render overview and then use my wheel on my mouse to zoom in. It shuts down instantly with no worning, happens more oftan than not,gets eritating but what do you do?

**Helavagal** · 02-13-2006, 06:19 PM

Without warning, it seems to happen a lot more with this one client than any other. They use one plan with several variations and then give it another name. This plan is totally unrelated to other plans I have had this happen to. This all started when I tried to paste one portion of the same plan into this file. Back-ups do not even show that I was in the plan since early January. What's worse is the misunderstanding with the guy.

**Helavagal** · 02-13-2006, 06:20 PM

He doesn't realize that this happens sometimes.

**frwillia** · 02-14-2006, 06:40 AM

Boy, that would have me orbiting the room just above the doors!

This is a bit of an easter egg hunt, but can you pinpoint when this started? Right after an upgrade perhaps? If so, maybe uninstalling CA, unplugging the network, turning off virus checkers, and every other resident program you can, then reinstalling, will help. (Of course you turn the self-defense programs back on before connecting to the WEB though.) Don't know, but it might be worth a try if nothing else works.

Fitch

**VHampton** · 02-14-2006, 06:53 AM

If your file is completely corrupted for whatever reason...you could do a *view to CAD* of each plan (Or export them as dwg files)....then start a new file by importing the CAD floor plans....and going *CAD to walls*.

It should get you up and running ....perhaps faster than trying to figure out where the mishap occured.

**Helavagal** · 02-14-2006, 09:37 AM

Been talking to Tech Supp and Geek Squad and Star Training here in town and I think they are all in conclusion that it is my vid card either driver out of date or the card is bad. Will keep you posted. I do know that I have been having prob's on and off since I bought this new computer and it came to a head last Thursday when I was coping in objects from another file. Got worse from there.

**jsimanyi** · 02-14-2006, 10:44 AM

What card? Old drivers will definitely cause problems some of the time. I'll do a quick scan for drivers if you list the card, but I warn you - most require you to FULLY UNINSTALL the current drivers, leaving you with a generic windoze driver upon reboot, and THEN you load the new version. As a guess, that's probably where I'd start.

As an aside, I have cleaned up quite a few computers for friends. Dell does a fantastic job of loading junk on your computer, and almost everyone seems to ship the box without updating drivers, bios, even Windows updates. I just build my own, so at least I only have one person to blame.

John S.

**tlsapp** · 02-14-2006, 11:30 AM

I had a similar problem of crashes in ver 10.0 that was cleared up by updating the driver for my vid card. I've had no problems since.

**Helavagal** · 02-14-2006, 11:55 AM

I had a local Geek to the rescue guy come over here and he took a look at the card. I have a ATI Radeon 256M X700 Pro video card. He updated the drivers for it and it solved a couple of problems I have been having with it. I was wondering if anyone here is using Window XP Media Center on their computer? Are you having any problems with this? He said that maybe CA is used to regular XP and not the differences in Media Center (mainly with the audio and VIDEO).

**Gary Doski** · 02-14-2006, 12:00 PM

Yes, I am using XP media center and do not have any rendering problems.

**ed.schafer** · 02-14-2006, 04:10 PM

I have found that on my computer with an ATI card I have the best performance with the Optimizations turned off.

This is located at Edit>Preferences>Render -- under Options uncheck Optimizations on. Try that and it should help your stability if you have an ATI card.

**Marty001** · 02-14-2006, 04:38 PM

I am using an HP pavilion zd8000 laptop (3.2 Mhz ,2 meg memory, ATI mobility radeon x600 256, XP media Service pak 2 ). I am experiencing CA just disappears when I click on the window after several minutes of idle time. This is also happening with Outlook, Acrobat Pro and several other programs. I am know investigating the possiblity of a bad memory module or processor. Called HP support and can see their heads turn to the side like a confussed dog. Still no resolution of this problem. Going to try Ed's suggestion.

**ed.schafer** · 02-14-2006, 04:54 PM

My recommended solution will only affect Chief and issues when taking render views. It will not have any affect on other programs. For your case it sounds like you have a system or vid card issue.

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