Experience needed

[meinsnailen]

Im back-- I was having my comuter shut down unexpectedly during renders, so on the advice of one of you kind folks, I upgraded from 430 watt pwr supply to a 550watt.
This worked for the static animations , but then I tried running a camera around the house and the computer quite on me again.
I dont know if this computer is even in the right league to handle detailed walkthroughs.

I need the advice of the experienced.
Thanks.

Meini

AMD ATHLON Dual core
2.1 ghz
2.0 gb ram
Monitor 1 ACER 22" AL2216W
Attached monitor is a old microscan 5 v adi.
GRAPHICS CARD - RADEON X1900 SERIES
GT 256 MB

[Wiggy]

Control Panel> Administrative Tools>event viewer, sort them the events there by error type, and check for any critical errors and read the message.

If there are no obvious problems there, check that you have the latest drivers for your raeon x1900, I believe 8.5 drivers were released a few days ago.

So this is only happening now when you try rendering animations?

What version of Max are you using, and what operating system?

It could be some issues with your CPU voltage, but i'll need your answers for the above first.

[geldslaw]

right i lost the first statement i was going to post, I would think that its your video card. but you don't have to change it. just remember that max is not a movie making program. you need to think like a director and an editor, what shots and how to edit them afterwards. movies are made up of CUT Scenes,

It can be a bit much when we in our innocence think we can make a movie within a modelling program, hahahah the modelling prog, can render elements that can be put together in post production and edited.

so basically render out clips of each part and put them together in different program. dont forget you have the option of a preview mode in max, I'm rusty and can't remember exactly where it is because I'm not back to using max until after the bank holiday weekend.

but good luck and let us know how you get on

[meinsnailen]

Thanks Wiggy for the response, Im using win xp sp2 and MAX V9.

[meinsnailen]

Thanks for the response Geldshaw

You mean I have to learn somethingelse! shyte Im not getting any younger. haha

Ok maybe I 'm dreaming but I would like to make B E A U TI FUL walkthroughs of houses, aircraft yachts, you know the story would you happen to know what that takes with regard to hardware and software?
thanks

[Wiggy]

Have you updated your drivers yet ? I found out the 8.5 drivers were actually released today.
Here's the link to download them : AMD GAME Drivers & Tools

[meinsnailen]

Thanks Wiggy, I forgot that part.
I'll do that and see what happens.

Meini

[meinsnailen]

Thanks Geldslaw, I seem to remember rendering out a bunch of clips once apon a time long long ago. I then collected them all and turned them into an avi. No recollection how I did that though, Im sure I could find the answer with some digging, of course someone that knows the drill could point me in the right directione'.
All the best.

Meini

[meinsnailen]

OK she bit the dust about 25 minutes into the render, Im going to look into Geldslaw's suggestione'

Meini

[geldslaw]

I think your machine is more than capable of doing the job at hand, many years ago a lot of people started of with a lot less and pulled of a lot more. mind you, there was a lot of effort put into the making of what it was that they wanted to achieve. Believe me when I hear that people put in 5 years into making an animation that lasts less than 5 minutes i have to ask about their sanity.

But the five years is a small amount of investment in creating something that represents a life time achievement and gets recorded in the annals of history. A lot of people these days are finding out that the dream of point click and hey presto doesn't work, better to have a labour of love, a lot of sweat, swearing, headaches, knees and ass going numb from not moving and that urge to just do one more tweak to get it right even when we know we're being desperate and it'll go wrong, does not stop us or makes us want to give up.

We're all like liccle mad scientist working away at some mad creation hahahahahahahaha hmmmmmm there's an animation in there somewhere. Anyways more planning and less haste but its a catch 22, what do you plan unless you have experience of it, so you have to have a go. sit back work out what worked and didn't work, make notes and develop a plan. before you teach your pc to fly through closed windows.

funny enough a neighbour did once throw his pc through his window, everyone in the street stuck their heads out of the door and their windows to find out what had happened, when we all saw that it was a pc in the street and a gaping hole in where his window was, we all went back in and more or less said to ourselves ah well. we all actually could sympathise. it stayed on the street all morning then he went out and picked it back up, i think it still works lol