Combustion crashing

[CootDog]

Hello there. I am currently working on a project where I will be bringing in 3D animaitons from MAX6 into Combustion via RPF. The I will add the particle FX and render the output. (basic setup)

However, When I put 3 or 4 particle FX it crashes.

AMD Athlon 1700+XP
OS: Win 2k
Combustion version 3.0.0.something
RAM: 512

Do you think it's memory or possible a workflow issue? or both?


Any response would be greatly appreciated

[dreggsy]

Try using the commit to disk feature on your particle operators/layers.
and any other operators that are fairly intensive
This should help out a bit.
and get som more ram.
also if your rendering to some of the quicktime codecs check that its not setting keyframes,
good luck

[cascatino]

you can also try to change the OpenGL settings on the Combustion preferences (software/hardware). Good luck and ciao.

[Freak]

What kind of graphics card are you using?

Which resolution are you dealing with?

For start I would say that 512 for compositing it's a bad start.


Cheers,

[CootDog]

I'm using a Matrox P750 card.
Doing 1280x720 resolution

I will try the save to disk option as well as open GL
Since these are tests I will go to 720x480 instead.