topic Re: Fly-Throughs Cause Crashes in Visualization

Fly-Throughs Cause Crashes

Anonymous — Thu, 11 May 2023 12:02:20 GMT

Nearly every time I try to save a fly-through as a quicktime movie it causes Archicad to crash. The more complex the parameters of the fly-through, the more likely it is to have a problem. I can usually save some simple fly-throughs (less than five cameras, sourced from the 3D window), but if I try to create a flythrough from the photorendering window it causes a crash every time. I'm assuming that the problem is caused by inadequate hardware but I thought there might be a way to get around this by adjusting the settings of the fly-through or of my computer. Does anyone have any ideas?

Archicad 8.1 R1/V1 (Student License)
Mac OS 10.3.3
400 Hhz G4
320 MB SDRAM at 100 MHz
ATY Rage 128 Pro 16MB VRAM

Re: Fly-Throughs Cause Crashes

Djordje — Fri, 07 May 2004 07:53:21 GMT

Nathanael wrote:
Nearly every time I try to save a fly-through as a quicktime movie it causes Archicad to crash. The more complex the parameters of the fly-through, the more likely it is to have a problem. I can usually save some simple fly-throughs (less than five cameras, sourced from the 3D window), but if I try to create a flythrough from the photorendering window it causes a crash every time. I'm assuming that the problem is caused by inadequate hardware but I thought there might be a way to get around this by adjusting the settings of the fly-through or of my computer. Does anyone have any ideas?

It does sound like inadequate hardware; that is why you should include your hardware and OS specs, as well as ArchiCAD version in your signature. Otherwise, it is next to impossible to answer.

Re: Fly-Throughs Cause Crashes

Anonymous — Fri, 07 May 2004 22:42:17 GMT

It looks Djordje is right. Your machine specs are about the minimum for running ArchiCAD these days.

Usually this should only cause it to run slowly though. How much free space do you have on your hard drive?

Re: Fly-Throughs Cause Crashes

Anonymous — Sat, 08 May 2004 02:16:48 GMT

I have slightly more than 15 GBs free memory.
What's the recomended hardware setup?

Re: Fly-Throughs Cause Crashes

Djordje — Sat, 08 May 2004 18:15:40 GMT

Nathanael wrote:
I have slightly more than 15 GBs free memory.
What's the recomended hardware setup?

http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/system_requirements/

Your Mac is really an old machine; I am wondering how ArchiCAD works at all!

You are very probably running out of memory. See http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=2398 for current opinions on which Mac to buy (and speed comparisons too).

You are a patient man

Re: Fly-Throughs Cause Crashes

Anonymous — Sat, 08 May 2004 20:35:12 GMT

have you tried rendering the fly-thru as a series of still images (picts on mac)
from the fly-thru dialogue?

might have a lower memory overhead?

Graphic Converter will stitch them together

if you you can't afford a new mac right now a 256M memory chip at about fifty bucks would'na be a bad idea

Re: Fly-Throughs Cause Crashes

Anonymous — Sat, 08 May 2004 23:13:39 GMT

Thanks for the advice. I guess it's time to get that G5.