I am working on the Pinboard tutorial (the one found on Techimage that shows how they did the cool effect in XMen)..
In the beginning of stage 5 I do as the tutorial suggests and do a test render by right clicking on the render icon and chosing Mantra. Up pops the mplay window. When I close the mplay window however and try to go back to Houdini I find that its hanging. Looking in the taskmanager in Windows you can see mplay creeping up in memory bit by bit, bloating. I can't kill Houdini until I kill mplay.
This gets pretty tedious obviously. I'm running a Compaq Evo 800W with a Radeon 9000 w/64MB and Houdini Apprentece edition.
I've tried turning off all of the hardware options for mplay, and messing with all its options, but to no avail.
Any environment variables I should have set or workarounds for this?