Whenever I try to start any animation, POV-Ray freeze.
Both using command-line (+kffxxx) or using an *.ini file.

Does anybody have a similar problem? Did you resolved it? How?
Does anybody have any hint about what setting or file can cause that?

Running on Windows 2000 sp4.
CPU: AMD thunderbird 1400 MHz
RAM: 512 Mb

Note: I can run animation if I use beta 3.7.xx but I can't do animation using file I/O
to pass 
information from one frame to the next.
-- 
Alain
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Greetings, Alain.

I used the beta version 12a for an animation, and my scene file worked - 
Povy created - one after the other - around 200 pictures.

Hmm.. Maybe it depends on the resolution, or on the scene? I wiuld be 
willing to test your scene file, if you want.

My system is Windows XP, Dual Intel Pentium 4 @ 3.06 GH, 1.25 GB RAM.

If you want me to test your scene, publish it here or sedn it to me, Alain. 
Please send me also the settings as an INI file.

Greetings,

Sven



"Alain" <ele### [at] netscapenet> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
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> Whenever I try to start any animation, POV-Ray freeze.
> Both using command-line (+kffxxx) or using an *.ini file.
>
> Does anybody have a similar problem? Did you resolved it? How?
> Does anybody have any hint about what setting or file can cause that?
>
> Running on Windows 2000 sp4.
> CPU: AMD thunderbird 1400 MHz
> RAM: 512 Mb
>
> Note: I can run animation if I use beta 3.7.xx but I can't do animation 
> using file I/O to pass information from one frame to the next.
> -- 
> Alain
> -------------------------------------------------
> A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

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Sven Littkowski nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 07/05/2006 13:58:
> Greetings, Alain.
> 
> I used the beta version 12a for an animation, and my scene file worked - 
> Povy created - one after the other - around 200 pictures.
> 
> Hmm.. Maybe it depends on the resolution, or on the scene? I wiuld be 
> willing to test your scene file, if you want.
> 
> My system is Windows XP, Dual Intel Pentium 4 @ 3.06 GH, 1.25 GB RAM.
> 
> If you want me to test your scene, publish it here or sedn it to me, Alain. 
> Please send me also the settings as an INI file.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Sven
> 
> 
> 
> "Alain" <ele### [at] netscapenet> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
> news:44594955$1@news.povray.org...
> 
>>Whenever I try to start any animation, POV-Ray freeze.
>>Both using command-line (+kffxxx) or using an *.ini file.
>>
>>Does anybody have a similar problem? Did you resolved it? How?
>>Does anybody have any hint about what setting or file can cause that?
>>
>>Running on Windows 2000 sp4.
>>CPU: AMD thunderbird 1400 MHz
>>RAM: 512 Mb
>>
>>Note: I can run animation if I use beta 3.7.xx but I can't do animation 
>>using file I/O to pass information from one frame to the next.
>>-- 
>>Alain
>>-------------------------------------------------
>>A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. 
> 
> 
> 
My tests where with some sample scenes that comes with the installer.
I tried with different resolutions.
Every scenes from the \animations\ folder cause my POV-Ray 3.6.1a to freeze BEFORE the
parsing even 
starts. It freezes during the preleminary display of the scene options. (it must be
something funky 
with my system)
With 3.7 beta 12a, when I try to run bounce.pov or bounce.ini, frame 1 and 2 are
rendered normaly, 
then it exits on parceing frame 3 with a message telling me that it can't find the
file 
"bounce.txt". this file hold the previous coordinates. Instead of writing the file
normaly, it write 
a file pvxx.tmp to the tmp path. (xx is some arbitrary, sequential hex value)

-- 
Alain
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Dogs crawl under gates, software crawls under Windows.

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Alain wrote:
> "bounce.txt". this file hold the previous coordinates. Instead of writing the file
normaly, it write 
> a file pvxx.tmp to the tmp path. (xx is some arbitrary, sequential hex value)

There is an issue with file output. It will be fixed in a future beta.

-- Chris

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Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> Whenever I try to start any animation, POV-Ray freeze.
> Both using command-line (+kffxxx) or using an *.ini file.
>
> Does anybody have a similar problem? Did you resolved it? How?
> Does anybody have any hint about what setting or file can cause that?
>
> Running on Windows 2000 sp4.
> CPU: AMD thunderbird 1400 MHz
> RAM: 512 Mb
>
> Note: I can run animation if I use beta 3.7.xx but I can't do animation using file
I/O to pass
> information from one frame to the next.
> --
> Alain
> -------------------------------------------------
> A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

I have this problem also with 3.6.1c on a Dell C2D notebook running Vista. It
seems to be a problem at the message window. If I clear the message window and
turn off console messages with -GA I can get through a dozen or so frames
before the msg window fills up with 'rendering frame n of m' and the sequence
freezes. I haven't tried to solve it any further yet. No problem when I do
multiple files without animation (i.e. manually) that overfill the msg window.

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tticknor nous illumina en ce 2008-07-27 15:47 -->
> Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
>> Whenever I try to start any animation, POV-Ray freeze.
>> Both using command-line (+kffxxx) or using an *.ini file.
>>
>> Does anybody have a similar problem? Did you resolved it? How?
>> Does anybody have any hint about what setting or file can cause that?
>>
>> Running on Windows 2000 sp4.
>> CPU: AMD thunderbird 1400 MHz
>> RAM: 512 Mb
>>
>> Note: I can run animation if I use beta 3.7.xx but I can't do animation using file
I/O to pass
>> information from one frame to the next.
>> --
>> Alain
>> -------------------------------------------------
>> A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
> 
> I have this problem also with 3.6.1c on a Dell C2D notebook running Vista. It
> seems to be a problem at the message window. If I clear the message window and
> turn off console messages with -GA I can get through a dozen or so frames
> before the msg window fills up with 'rendering frame n of m' and the sequence
> freezes. I haven't tried to solve it any further yet. No problem when I do
> multiple files without animation (i.e. manually) that overfill the msg window.
> 
> 
> 
That post is about 2 years old! For me, the problem cleared itself away.
At the time, my problem was totaly different than your's: I got the freezes 
immediately whenever I started any animation, before the parsing even started.
The xx in beta 3.7.xx was around 07 to 12 at the time.
A typican scenario was, at the time:
Launch POV-Ray.
Load the scene file.
Start the animation. Instant FREEZE!

In your case, try reinstalling POV-Ray into a custom folder instead of somewhere 
inside program files. Vista don't let a programm alter it's own ini files.

-- 
Alain
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You know you've been raytracing too long when your source files are starting to 
get bigger than the image files.
     -- Matt

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