Semi-large model, Blender hangs randomly

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#1

I’m working on a semi-large model (a 3d layout for a local club), and recently it’s started hanging. I would guess it’s just too many verticies for my computer to handle, but that shouldn’t be the case as I have:

AMD Athlon XP 3200+ (2.19ghz)
1gb Ram

I haven’t tried it at home on my AMD 64-bit 3000+ yet, but I only have 512 ram there.

I dont know the total number of verticies, but I would estimate about 1000+ a room with 5 rooms so far.

I had originally thought it would be the plane I had placed as the flooring as it was quite large, but I deleted it and Blender stopped working again a few moments later.

Any ideas on what it could be?

Also, I tried exporting the project as a .3ds file to load into Swift3d later on, but the .3ds file is blank (no scenes).

#2

what errors are you getting? Did you try running blender from the console with -d as a startup option (blender -d).

Windows or linux?

#3

but I would estimate about 1000+ a room with 5 rooms so far.

That’s not very large as far as models go. I don’t believe it is a size issue.

GreyBeard

#4

In a single model you should be able to handle I think about a million polys for that ram (transforms will be laggy a bit though…).

So no the poly count should not be an issue.

Perhaps you are having grahics card problems? I’d try a lower quality setting for your graphics card.

LetterRip

#5

Sorry it took so long to reply. I’m not at work on Wed., and I’ve been out all day. I’ll try starting with the -d option tomorrow.

Glad to know it’s not the poly count, it would’ve highly suprised me.

Thanks for the suggestions.

#6

might be bad ram too. I get a memory protection fault with several of my programs (win xp) - not just blender. But blender crashes more frequently now with 2.4 installed compared to previous versions. Wondering if maybe the code which accesses memory has changed in the re-write?