c4 vs. windows 64bit

[nanuk]

hi out there,

i´m running c4.03 on a dual amd opteron 250, 4gb ram with sata raid 1.5tb. os is xp pro x64 edition sp1. grafic card is geforce 6800.

when working with c4 the viewer diplays artifacs and when you render you got the same artifacs in there to. when you refresh the viewer these strange lines will disapeare but will get back on other frames. so the error is not reproducable. in some cases when you drag the slider the whole machine will freece. sometimes the monitor switches off and the computer will restart by it self.

does anybody have a clue?

thx nanuk

[Scott]

Hello

It sounds like graphhics card problem.. you have very nice powerfull machine there , the weak point in your setup, in my opinion is the video card…geforce cards are nice and fast, but the quadro models is were the good stuff is…
try updating the drivers.. or another video card..

hope it helps..

Esteban Mora

[summerJ]

thank you for your reply esteban. this was my thought too. but i also thought, that it might be a problem of the 64 bit version of windows and the driver or both. the driver is the latest you can get from nvidia.
It is a cool machine, thanx for that. 😀 And perhaps i will upgrade to quadro 4500. it´s all about the money! 😉

nanuk

[Jasper Brekelmans]

Hello,

I have C4 running on my HP 9300 but with a FX 4500 card and I see no issues. In fact even though Combustion is 32 bit I was quite surprised just how fast it is on this machine. I have a dual boot system (32 bit and 64 bit) and it is nice difference when working with the 64 bit boot. The extra RAM is a big plus also!!

[Sven Well]

are you using a stabilize operator in you workspace? I see that operator cause black horizontal line artifacts all the time. If you are then I suggest you commit it to disk and the problem should go away.

Just a thought.

Alan Bell

[summerJ]

AlanEBell wrote:

are you using a stabilize operator in you workspace? I see that operator cause black horizontal line artifacts all the time. If you are then I suggest you commit it to disk and the problem should go away.

Just a thought.

Alan Bell

No Alan, i´m not using a stabilze operator. I think it is the driver. I have to check that. Otherwise I have to downgrade to 32bit windows i guess or get a quadro.

Thx Nanuk

[Anonymous]

C4 runs great on my 64 dual too, but I can get it to crash when using my GenArts plug-ins.

[Anonymous]

I had a similar problem on a workstation… I just installed the latest nvidia driver and it’s fixed… It’s something that happen with GeForce cards… I strongly suggest Quadro cards to avoid problems like that, even the cheapest Quadro will work fine with combustion.

[summerJ]

i did build it by myself, but in never had problems with it. but i will get a quadro fx soon and then i hope all this problems will be gone. but i will also downgrade to 32bit windows, cause the pc becomes my toxik station and yet this only supports 32bit.

thx for your suggestions nanuk

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