GMax keeps crashing

[Dickert]

Now what???

"The application has run out of memory and will now close"
 
I have 4 Gig of RAM in this confuser.  How could it possibly run out of memory?  There is more here than XP will even recognize.   This machine has run perfectly for the last year.   Now all of a sudden, Gmax keeps crashing.  All the other programs are fine.  So I tried un-installing Gmax and re-loading it.  That didn

[Travis]

This happens when the memory Gmax uses (around 1 GB, I guess) is overloaded by a texture or image that uses too much of the available amount of RAM.  Are you using background textures?  If so, when you zoom in, disable the textures at some point before the message arrives.

[Fr. Bill]

Better still, don't use "background textures" at all. All they do is eat memory like candy.

Apply your background view to a simple planar object instead.

[Crashwoody]

Good evening,
I use 3d max and it dumps all of your  redundent data out of your cache every hour or even less depending on how much data you are creating. G-max is probably useing up way to much "virtual" memory and your memory stack it getting used up too fast. Adobe Photo shop has this same problem...an easy way around this, if your regy hasnt been corrupted... is to save constantly, once you save the cache is flushed out and its emply again. If this continues you will have to reinstall but not untill you do a system 32 flush and clean.
Windows has some very interesting quirks that make other progies go nuts. If none of this works. You can go to fsds..lol  Just kidding.. Or just re format you hd.

Some times the Registry gets too full of redundencies. If you clean it up that might help out too as registry redundencies gobble up virtual memory like crazy as the window OS kernal is constantly reading the data over and over trying to verify it and this just burns up v-memory. Another thing that could work is grab "Kill it all" I use this and it knocks down alot of programs that run in the back ground that could use all of your V-mem. Out side of all of this You could have a trojen...  :o
So a registry scan and a system 32 scan will ned to be done.

Hope this helps and gets you back on track with your projects!

Tom/Crashwoody
Cr-1 Software Ltd/ Simtech Flight Design Ltd.

[-sam-]

Sounds more like a problem with your scene file.
Either it