ltjimmy

Hey guys,

anyone been getting a dramatic slowdown with Houdini v595 (free version) with Windows 7 automatic updates?

Even flipbooking a sphere moving across the viewport is taking forever to export and the renderers are now pretty much unusable. (Render region with default driver and mantra nodes simply don't work for example)

Tried disabling firewalls and AV programs, plus rolling back some video card drivers (nvidia gtx275) but to no avail.

Anyone else had any trouble?

Even after disabling everything, adware blocker, firewall, antivirus, I get the same error message.

Hi all,

new to this forums and have spent some time searching for my response, so apologies in advance if there's already a lot of info on this topic!

My problem is with the mantra renderer, after running Apprentice for around 6 months with few problems if any, I've recently noticed a dramatic slowdown in rendering time. Even a newly created sphere with no shaders applied will take up to 1 minute to render (before it would be rendered as soon as I lifted my finger off the mouse button)

The other problem of note is that my Render Region function has stopped working and usually crashes or freezes houdini.

Doing a render proper results in an error message 9 times out of 10 as follows:

“IMG_TileWrite::socketWrite: No error
mantra: Error writing data to image device”

I've downloaded all my latest nvidia drivers and windows 7 updates as well, and I don't seem to be experiencing a problem with any of my other software.

My machine:
Windows 7 64bit
Intel Core i7 CPU 920@ 2.67Hgz
6.00 GB Ram
Nvidia GTX 275

I'm using the newest build of apprentice (595)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!