Blender Crash

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#1

For absolutely no reason, blender now crashes every time I try to extrude a relatively simple bezier curved object or go into edit mode on a rough face model in two of my blend files. I was having no trouble before, but now I can’t do anything in the program.

I restarted my computer, to no avail. I uninstalled blender, saving the blend files, and reinstalled it, to no avail once more.

I have attached a blend file with a simple bezier curve of a knife. Someone please DL the file and see if they can extrude it without problems. I don’t think it’s the file that is the problem, but I need to make sure.

I also have absolutely no idea what the heck is wrong or what to do to fix it. If restarting and reinstalling didn’t take care of the issue, I don’t know what will, and now I’m worried I can’t use blender on my PC again.

For those wondering, my specs:

Windows Vista
4 GB RAM
Graphics: HD 4850
CPU: 2.4 GHz Quad-core

==EDIT==

So now I know it’s my computer, but I don’t know what. It seems anytime the program has to deal with anything semi-demanding, and even some stuff that’s NOT demanding, like vertices that number in only the hundreds, it crashes. It was working fine last week, why is it screwed up now? I would like to clear the registry if anyone knows how to.

Attachments

phreaksig.blend (137 KB)

#2

For your registry, try CCleaner (crap cleaner). It is very easy to use and works fine.
There are more “surgical” tools of course, but it is a nice all-rounder tool.
Be sure to save your registry before attempting major repairs.

Are you sure about your ram ? Is it stable and working fine ?
Can you identify some strange processes ? I don’t know Vista, so my help is more than limited unfortunately…

#3

My RAM is stable and working fine. My GPU is overclocked but I don’t see how that could be a problem. I ran CCleaner, cleaned registry, did system restore, uninstalled, all that good stuff. Start all over, and it still crashes. None of the processes I have running are anything I don’t recognize, and I’m still stuck.

#4

Mmmhhh. maybe you could try another version of Blender ?
Look at Graphicall.org: they have nice builds of Blender.
Some are highly experimental, some really safe.
Maybe it is a bug corrected now in some recent SVN build ?

I would be surprised if none of them works.

#5

I have a somewhat similar issue, Blender crashes each few minutes usually when I extrude something.

My box is a Blender2.46/Vista32/E6600/4GoRAM/ATI4850 with latest catalyst 8.7

I begin to suspect the ATI 4850.

Has anyone here has a 4850 running a stable Blender?

If the 4850 has a problem with Blender it’s sad because this great card is selling like hot cakes in gamers community.

#6

Have the same problem on linux, can’t extrude anything, if I try so, screen turns black and I wind up at my login screen. I suspect video problems (ati radeon express 200).
Under windows Blender runs slow (same machine) but after I copied the atioglxx.dll file into my blender folder, as mentioned in another thread it seems to work fine. Other linux distros work, but slow.