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Spotlight keeps crashing z4... (Answered)

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#1

Spotlight seems to be extremely unstable-- Crashes every other time I turn it on. Tried switching to basic polySphere and default texture to make sure it wasn’t just my model- it’s not. Crashed out about 6 or 7 times within the last hr.

My specs:small_orange_diamond::…

Lenovo Thinkpad W700DS
Vista Business (64 bit) SP2
Intel Core 2 Extreme Q9300 @ 2.53GHz x2
4 GB Ram
NVidia Quadro FX 3700M
Driver version 188.25
Total Graphics memory: 2781 MB
Dedicated Video Memory: 1024 MB
SharedSystem Memory: 1757 MB
IRQ: 16
BUS PCI Express x16

#2

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: ZBrush.exe
Application Version: 4.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 4c5fc9ef
Fault Module Name: ZBrush.exe
Fault Module Version: 4.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 4c5fc9ef
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0002a3e6
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.256.6
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: fd00
Additional Information 2: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Additional Information 3: fd00
Additional Information 4: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160

#3

I’m having the same problem. Every time I try an use Spotlight, Z-Brush 4 crashes to desktop.

Running Windows Vista 64

#4

Spotlight is EXTREMELY unstable for me and my MacPro running OSX 10.6 Guaranteed crash within 2 minutes. I’ve found it to be more stable n my Windows 7 machine. Only crashed a few times in the last 24 hours there.

#5

Alright, I fixed it by going here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Pixologic\ZBrush 4.0\ZStartup\ConfigFiles

and deleting the 2 files I found in there. After I deleted them, it seems to be working fine now.

Try that, Todd…

Dickie

#6

I’ve been getting some random crashes while PolyPainting with SpotLight, can’t seem to recreate it, it’s pretty random… sometimes I can work for 10 mins, this last time I had been working for 30 mins… ouch…

I really wish the Zprojects saved polypaint now :wink:

Quick System Specs
Win 7 Ult x64
Dual Xeon 5650s(24 Threads Combined)
24GB DDR3
GTX 295

#7

Same issues here, under Vista 32bit. For me, while running Spotlight, if I select an image from Lightbox I get quite a few crashes (default textures).

#8

Same issue here. Random crashes while using Spotlight
That makes the feature useless :frowning:
Running Vista 64 sp1
GTX280

#9

Tried deleting the config files as stated above, but still get a crash within 5-10 minutes of use.

Hopefully this is a setting issue.

Really frustrating.

MC

#10

Yes i’m experiencing the same on a Vista64 Machine. Works a couple of times and then crashes ZB.
For infos sake it crashes not when i activate spotlight but when i start painting after activating spotlight.

regards

Nicholas

#11

Scrap that - now it crashed when adding images to spotlight. It seems random at the moment.

#12

may be I’m wrong, but when I ensure that the paint tool is selected on the wheel before any stroke, it seems to work better.
When I enter lightbox mode with shift-Z, the wheel doesn t appear, I guess it s in paint mode, pressing Z the wheel comes up with no tool selected. So for now, before any paint on my mesh, I get sure paint is selected.
It seems to me that I get less crashes this way and have been able to work for more than an hour

#13

Yeah I’m getting crashes also – to the point i can barly use lightbox :frowning:

Windows 7 64bit
intel core i7 @ 2.67 ghz
12 Gb memory
Nvidia GTX 285
Nvidia x58 SLI LE Motherboard

Thanks

#14

yep i have the same problem spotlight crashes every time when i try to paint the texture what a pity i hope pixologic will fix that

#15

Seems a bit more stable but… Still crashing out quite a bit. Haven’t tried your suggestion yet Dickie- A little nervous about stripping stuff out manually. Do you work for Pixo or were you just tinkering around with the zBush’s inards?

#16

AS awesome as all the new features are I have to admit that I’m more than a bit surprised that Pixo still hasn’t released a 64 bit version yet. Any plans on doing this soon? Max/ Maya/ and the other app that shall not be named all run sooooo much better/faster on 64 bit systems IMHO…

#17

Yes, I too am experiencing the same crash. Ive opened spotlight by using the www link in lightbox and selecting the yahoo plugin. The first time I painted on my model for about 10 mins and it crashed. I tried again and it crashed.
I have only tried with textures from the web, not my own textures.

I also am running vista 64 with 4 gigs ram and an ati fireGL 3400. opteron 270x2

I will try with an i7 920 and 12gigs ddr3 on an ati firepro 3750. also with vista 64

I was hoping to use spotlight on a current project it would be nice if it runs on the other computer

#18

Please keep us informed of the comparison.

#19

well I tried it on the other computer. I used spotlight for about 15 minutes, left zbrush open while i went to a movie(about 3 hours), continued using spotlight for another 10 mins, and no crash.

im not sure why it crashes on one computer and not the other

#20

I am getting less crashes when I avoid triple clicking on an image. However, the random crashes with Spotlight still occur. I created a ticket for this at Pixo support, but have not heard anything back.

Other than that, this has been a great release.

Matt