Pressing F12 to render, froze my computer!

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Hi Folks,

I was doing a tutorial (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Quickie_Render) and it says to press F12 anytime and I did that and my computer froze. Nothing on the keyboard worked, mouse, etc - everthing FROZE. I was forced to reboot.

Computer is a micron with nvida but as far as I know, it running fine, has been for years.

Anyone had any problems with the rendering?

Thanks!
Dan

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Did it ‘froze’ or was it just busy rendering? What does your Task Manager say while it’ froze?

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It ‘froze’. All inputs were inaccessable. Keyboard, mouse, everything - not even Control-Alt-Delete works so cannot bring up the task manager.

Dan

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In F10, in the Output tab, bottom center, are 2 buttons “DispWin” and “DispView”; change yours to “DispView” which will render in the 3D viewport instead of opening a new window. Hit F12 and see if that works.

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Hmmm… must have been a fluke… When I rebooted the system, and opened it up again, with the gingerbread man, and hit F12, a new window popped up and it started rendering and the gbman was rendered. I did have a LOT of windows opened so maybe that had something to do with it such as limited memory to work with. Dunno.

I tried F10 - and I did not get a response - I am not sure what this function is supposed to do. Sorry, I am a newbie :expressionless:

Dan

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It takes you to the Render Buttons.

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Umm… dang. It happened again. Rendering FROZE my system again. This is obviously not a fluke. It caused me to do a forced hard reboot as I was not able to use my system with ALL inputs blocked.

This is really, really bad especialy since I cannot save my hard-earned work!

Please report this issue as a bug. It seems to happen intermittently and randomly so it seems.

Dan

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Like Flight% already said, try rendering in the 3D View instead of the popup render window. Press F10, then in the Ouput panel in the buttons area select DispView.

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Yes, I ask those questions for a reason; if you can render succeccfully with DispView it’s unlikely that it anything in the file that’s problematic. Then we can move onto asking you about your Video Card, hardware acceleration etc…

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