"bryan" <bry### [at] thedukesorg> wrote:
> Thanks for the help with this.  I checked my page file settings & memory
> available during rendering & both seem fine (about 400MB free RAM during
> rendering).  I changed the pov file last line to be object{Patch}.  Still,
> no change in the behavior on my desktop PC.  I rendered an animation series
> & 4 frames into it, my computer hung (nothing works...just plain locked up).
>
> I installed POV-Ray 3.6 on my laptop & everything works perfectly with the
> same pov & image files.  Grrrr.
>
> So, I'm thinking maybe there's a corrupt file somewhere on my desktop.  I
> tried uninstalling & reinstalling (again!), but no luck.  If I don't use a
> height_field, my desktop POV runs normally.  Anyone have an idea of a dll
> that might be getting called during height_field number crunching that I
> can delete/reinstall manually?

There is nothing wrong with POV-Ray, there is something wrong with your
computer. An application cannot make a properly working system crash. Most
likely your system has a cooling problem. While most programs will hardly
require any processing power, the prolonged running under full load, like
you do when rendering an animation, causes your system to overhead and then
results in random system failures. Get your system fixed, and POV-Ray will
run just fine. Repeated installing and unstinatlling POV-Ray or any other
software will not fix your hardware!

Post a reply to this message