Ok, this is weird. I had the problem before that the computer would restart when I would try to load a picture as a texture. I then clicked on the thin grey button next to the Load Image one and it worked fine. I have a NVIDIA Riva TNT2 Model 64. Now, I made this animation and click on Anim and the first frame rendered and everything just stopped working. 15 seconds later, the computer turned off and restarted. It said that the problem came from the driver (NVIDIA) of the video card. Now, I have the latest drivers. Is this a case where I need to tell it to not use the card’s drivers for rendering? I remember that was a problem before…maybe it is fixed now (I haven’t used Blender in awhile).
I am anxious to use the new Blender version but I need it to render :). I have another program that will sometimes restart my computer as well. I have Windows XP…is this a problem anyone else has had? I have Macafee Virusscan and it didn’t find anything.
Just an idea:
Maybe your BIOS shuts down your PC when the CPU is getting too high (which could happen when you render something). Did you overclock your PC or is the fan covered with fluffy stuff? Is that ather program also CPU stressing?
I have the exact same video card, and while I’ve never had the problem in Blender, I often had it happen while on the web. I installed the latest drivers, and that seems to have fixed the problem.
I’ve never had to do that before…kinda irritating. I won’t be able to “preview” views and such unless i do the command prompt way. Is there any “automated” way to command-line render it and open it?
