[Newbyjonathan]

Sorry, I’m being a bit sloppy, overtired I guess! You only need to leave 100kb on your system drive. (not 100MB as I previously posted) the reason is that windows requires a dump file size of 64kb so 100kb covers it!

[Newbyjonathan]

****** Warning ******

I am not suggesting you use the 3GB switch. On the contrary, from what I have just read it is a waste of time and moreover can cause serious system problems.

[Newbyjonathan]

Just found this explanation for you. I know it doesn’t solve your problem directly, but if you haven’t configured the ram to be used correctly then maybe this in itself is causing you a problem.

XP (and other OS’s) have a 4GB memory limit. Split. 2GB for OS and 2GB for Application. The /3GB switch borrows 1GB from the OS and loans it to application demands.

The application must be designed to take advantage of this (aka Large Address Aware) otherwise it’s usless as many applications are designed around the 2GB limit. Does anyone know what Vegas is?

Check out the microsoft website for direct instructions if you choose to edit your boot.ini file to switch the 3GB switch. In theory at least, if you haven’t already done this then you might just as well pull the extra 1GB because it isn’t doing anything.

[Newbyjonathan]

I’ll stand corrected on this if I am wrong but unless you are using ram render, in the options the ram render of which you say 1024 is available should be set to 0. By setting a figure in this box what you are actually doing is allocating ram ‘only’ for ram rendering and hence take that amount away from what is available for your ‘proper’ render.

Set your pagefile to twice the amount of ram you have. Place your pagefile on a different drive to your system files & ideally a different drive to your render files. Place at least 100mb of pagefile on you system drive.

Set your pc to Clear PageFile at Shutdown
Go to Start > Control panel > Administrative tools > local security policy > Local policies > security options then find the option >
“Shutdown: Clear Virtual Memory Pagefile” right click then Properties + enable and then hit Apply button. This will increase your shutdown time but it is better to start with a clean slate.

Have you configured your ram properly? I know nothing on this subject apart from you cannot just ‘plug and play’ more than 2gig of ram on windows. You are on windows xp sp2 yeah?

No heat problems?

Good luck!

[Newbyjonathan]

Thank you for your prompt answers. Sorry I didn’t come back and say sooner, but I did look! Info gratefully received.