Blender 2.7 and above Exception Illegal Instruction

gazray4699 · April 10, 2015, 6:08am

Hello,

I’ve been trying to get Blender running on a new build but unfortunately, it’s deciding not to play ball. I did manage to get pre-2.71 Blender running but it crashes when rendering a large amount of objects or using features set in Blender 2.74. I am rendering using the Cycles Engine.

The new build specs are as follows:

AMD FX8350
HyperX 8GB 1866mhz RAM
HyperX SSD
Nvidia GTX 550TI
Asus M5A97 EVO r2.0 (No onboard graphics)

Blender crashes shortly after finding Python with an Illegal Instruction. I suspect this might be something to do with the lack of onboard graphics but I’m sure there should be a way to resolve that.

Visual C++ 2013 is installed.

Here are the contents of the crash.txt

Blender 2.74 (sub 0), Commit date: 2015-03-31 13:39, Hash 000dfc0

backtrace

99: PyInit_mathutils_noise_types - 0x3FCA9230
98: fftw_plan_many_dft - 0x3F0347B0
97: fftw_plan_many_dft - 0x3F0347B0
96: fftw_plan_many_dft - 0x3F0347B0
95: UnhandledExceptionFilter - 0x77069220
94: MD5Final - 0x77283950
93: _C_specific_handler - 0x772050AC
92: RtlCompareUnicodeString - 0x772254D0
91: RtlTimeToSecondsSince1970 - 0x772056F0
90: KiUserExceptionDispatcher - 0x7723FE1A
89: log - 0xF6C628F0
88: PyMapping_Length - 0x6B9B2B80
87: PyMapping_Length - 0x6B9B2B80
86: PyMapping_Length - 0x6B9B2B80
85: PyMapping_Length - 0x6B9B2B80
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Can anyone help? I need an answer quickly.

dfelinto · April 24, 2015, 10:37am

Did you find any solution? I know someone that is running into the same issue. He gets the crash right when launching Blender (any > 2.71 blender)

Frankstar86 · May 28, 2015, 9:56pm

Still no news from this? I have the exact same issue. My specs are similar to you, gazray4699, I tried installing the last version of blender with no luck. I installed the version I was working with before I got this new computer (2.72b) which worked fine, but I just couldn’t get it to work either. Interestingly, I had the idea of copying the files from the Blender folder in my Windows.old (I have the same HDD, but reinstalled the OS again when I changed the rest of the PC). Surprisingly it worked! and I was fine for a while, until I wanted to use some features like freestyle or the stereoscopic camera. I’m still looking around to try to solve this problem. I hope anybody will find a solution soon!!

Frankstar86 · May 28, 2015, 9:58pm

Any news on this? I have the exact same issue!!!

IkariShinji · May 28, 2015, 11:27pm

Do you have Python installed on your machine?
Blender comes with its own inbuilt Python, but uses a system-wide Python installation if it finds one, even if the versions don’t match. So, whenever a part of Blender calls for advanced Python commands which do not correspond to your “system-Python”, you will see error messages…

In a nutshell:
Make sure your Python versions match or that Blender can not see your “system-Python”, so that it falls back to its integrated one.

abhiartcg · November 6, 2015, 7:45am

Did any one find a solution to the above mentioned problem?
I, eventually came across a solution afters days of sweating over the crash problem.
As in my case, I was using Windows 7 ultimate, updating which to service_pack_1 did it for me.
“AMD Fx 8350 Black Edition
M5A99FX PRO R2.0
NvIDIA GTX 760
8 GB”

Rinkhals · November 11, 2015, 10:15pm

I’m having Blender crashing on using a mouse button (left or right - the middle button seems to be okay).

“Illegal instruction (core dumped)”

I’m using Linux with a Nvidia G98 (GeForce 8400) graphics card. Blender 2.76*

I’m wondering if the problem isn’t to do with installing Virtualbox and the dkms drivers: Blender was working fine before I did that.

*just tried Blender 2.69 also crashes in the same way
Also tried with Blender 2.76b

edit:

Actually, it appears that upgrading my system causes the crashing.
Distro: Manjaro

Blender works fine until I upgrade the system.

w1g3y · August 21, 2016, 4:15pm

Hi All,

I’m having the same issue with my new rig(built for blender use)
Specs and driver versions are in the attached screenshot. Basically I get the Error: EXCEPTION_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION when launching blender. I volunteer for Sheepit-Renderfarm to, and I have to run the client in VirtualBox to get it to run.

Please let me know if there’s anything I can do/run/test to find a solution.

Regards,
w1g3y.

w1g3y · August 21, 2016, 4:23pm

Hi All,

I’m having the same issue on a Xeon machine with GeForce GTX750 Ti

Screenshow shoew driver versions if needed.

Please let me know if there’s anything I can do/test/run to help solve this issue

Regards,
w1g3y

ramp10er · August 4, 2017, 4:44am

I also encountered the same problem with Blender 2.78c x64. I’m using Windows 7 64-bits… The solution I found is to used Blender 2.78c x86 for it to run blender… The only problem I’m encountering right now is that I can’t render on GPU…