POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : What's this?? : Re: What's this?? Server Time
2 Jun 2024 17:50:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: What's this??  
From: St 
Date: 2 Sep 2004 15:59:49
Message: <41377bb5@news.povray.org>
"Slime" <fak### [at] emailaddress> wrote in message
news:41377687$1@news.povray.org...
> > 'StretchDIBits()Failed!(Windows error)'
> >
> >   Whatever it is, is there a way to avoid it?
>
> The only time I've encounted this was when I rendered a huge image
and had
> the display window maximized. I think I was low on memory too.
>
> So it basically means the image can't be displayed in the display
window for
> some reason, but it should still go to the output file which you can
view
> later.

     Thanks Slime, that's exactly what's happening. I have a large
render that sometimes displays in the render window, but if it
doesn't, then I can still view the output as per normal. The message
being sporadic confused me - but that's the memory side of it I
guess...

   Thanks again.

    ~Steve~


>
>  - Slime
>  [ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]
>
>


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