eCabinet Systems 5.2 and Vista

[Mark Terreau]

I'm running Windows Vista 32 bit and I have installed the Opengl Nvidia drivers. I recently upgraded to 5.2 and everything was working fine until I hit the Render button in Custom Layout. Then I get the message "eCabinet Systems has stopped working". I've exited out and tried it a number of times, always with the same result. Is this a known problem, and is there a fix? If not, how do I go back to 5.1?

Thank you.

[DanEpps]

What kind of computer do you have Mark (CPU speed, RAM, video card)? This could be caused by having a video adapter that does not have dedicated memory, thus it uses system RAM. If the system has to swap portions of the program in and out of memory because you do not have enough system RAM and video is "stealing" part of it, it will take much longer to render.

Windows reports programs as "not responding" if they do not report back to the operating system within a certain amount of time. The program itself may be still running but Windows doesn't know its status. Try giving it more time and see if the render completes.

[Mark Terreau]

Thank you Dan, but I'm quite certain that's not the problem. My video card has 512 mb of dedicated memory, plus I have 3 gig of RAM on top of that. I just got a new beefy computer, you see, just to run graphics intensive programs like eCabs (hence the Vista, because that's the only operating system HP offers). Anyway, it's not giving me the typical "not responding" message. It's actually shutting eCabs down and kicking me out of the program entirely. I took a screenshot of the error message, but I don't know how to post it on here.