gronk33

Great suggestion. So I tried running Houdini in manual update mode as you suggested. However the first view in that file is of a giant building with many, many instances of a digital asset displayed.

So I kept crashing. And weirdly, the nodes STILL cooked when I opened up the file - the mode switched from manual to autoupdate for some reason without my interference.

Is there a setting saved with hipc files that would override the manual update setting?

Nonetheless I opened the file on a desktop PC, saved out a version without the building displayed and it ended up loading fine on my laptop. Thus you're right about the IntelHD graphics being the issue.

Thanks very much for your help (and if you do know what's going on with the switch to autoupdate on a file load, I'd be grateful for a solution.)!

Hi there,

I'm trying to open the building_v001.hip file from the Next Steps: Lesson 3 in Houdini FX 12.5 build 376. The file loads, the sops start cooking and Houdini crashes with the following messages:

A memory allocation occurred, probably due to insufficient memory.

6192: Fatal error: Segmentation Fault

I'm using a Lenovo X220 laptop with 8gb of RAM and Windows 7 Professional 64 bit. Nothing else is running.

Even when I escape out before the nodes start cooking, as soon as I dive into the window_maker digital asset Houdini crashes.

Given the amount of RAM I have, it seems like I shouldn't have a problem. Does anyone have suggestions?

Thanks!

Thank you SYmek. That's extremely helpful information. I hope someday rendering can move onto GPUs since they're so much easier to upgrade. For now you've definitely helped me with the decision to stay on my FX3800.

But it's also great to hear about your experience with the GTX580.