X2 NOT STABLE!?

[Jeff2005]

I am having trouble with X2 locking up for no apparent reason, I will be right in the middle of drawing something simple then all of a sudden it locks up, and I have to ctl+alt+del out of it which makes it very annoying.

has any one else had this trouble?

 

 

thanks Jeff

[Guest]

nope

 

neither system, home or work

[summit fever]

no issue here.

[Cuda84]

Nothing like that.

[Jeff2005]

It is also changing entity colors when I didn't change them at all myself.

[Rick Henrickson The Boeing Co.]

nope

[mrmead]

all 4 seats working good

[Todd Tracey from Fastech]

What graphics card are you running? Most issues I've seen so far with the few customers that are running it so far (did the download thing) have been graphics related.

[Thad]

I've noticed (like others have mentioned in another thread) that the computer seems to slow down after running X2 for a while. It takes longer for the backplot window to come up, it takes longer for the parameters dialog box to open up, etc.

 

I haven't experienced any of your problems.

 

Thad

[kunfuzed]

I have actually had mine crash about 3 or 4 times in the last two days since I've been using it. And then ocaisionally I will hit the save button and it will give me a "write error", but when I do a "save as" its fine. MR2 neve did this stuff. I'm hoping I didn't upgrade to quickly.

[Keith @ Solid Code Solutions]

No Issues here.

[gcode]

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I will hit the save button and it will give me a "write error", but when I do a "save as" its fine.

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If you have the "save a bitmap" option turned on,

try turning it off.

 

Personally, I've found X2 to be rock solid on both my home machine and 3 machines at work.

 

[ 11-03-2006, 09:44 PM: Message edited by: gcode ]

[Thee Dragracer1951]

Pretty stable at my shop...After I got over a couple little stumbling blocks. I have had a crash or two. Updated the vid drivers and that seems to have taken care of that.

My biggest thing has been getting my machine def's put together properly, now all's well.

We be all happy an stuff in X2 land. I think I got a new programmer commin Monday for an interview. I done told him we have a soft serve ice cream machine. I mean...What else could he want??

[Jack Neelands™]

ok im scrathcing my head on this one as well guys cause I had more problems with X than X2...the only time X2 got a crash was when i saved as a stl file then right after i saved as an iges file then again as a parasolid to a folder that i was sending to a customer

Other than that one instance i have to admit its been rock solid here.

I thinks Thad's sticky should include operating system as well as video cards and hell through in the monitor as well

[Chris Kozell]

Jeff,

try disable hardware acceleration under settings, config, and screen tab. You will see at the top left a check box for it. Give it a try.

 

If that doesn't work try to do a repair with the system disk. Make sure when you do, you are log in as admin.

[PeterM]

Install went well, lost some settings and the matt'l and tool librarys got over written, seems a tad slower but no crashes here.

[gcode]

Peter,

what video card are you running??

If turning down hardware acceleration is preventing crashes, I'd first uninstall the video drivers then reinstall using the latestes version.

If that doesn't help, I'd look at buying a different video card.

In my view, turning down hardware acceraltion is

only a diagnostic tool. The performace hit is too

hard to be acceptable for day to day use.

 

The 'Include a bitmap in file when saving" option

in System Config/Files has caused people an awful lot of grief. It is the first thing I turn off

when setup up a Mastercam system. The pretty little preview picture is not worth the potential

trouble.

 

Basically, the video card caputures a screen shot

and includes it in the file save proccess.

If it hangs during the proccess, X can crash

or even worse, overwrite your filename with nothing, destroying your file. This is the infamous "0 byte crash" that has plauged Mastercamer's for sevreral releases.

[kunfuzed]

Yeah I think that happened to me. Luckily it wasn't an involved file. Granted I only used MR2 for a couple of months, but that was never a problem before X2. So you think it could be a card/driver issue? Personally I like the pretty little preview picure.

[SBerg]

Good here!

[kunfuzed]

Ok, it just did the little file thingy. First I opened a file, then saved it as blahblah-OP2. At that point it gave me an "error writing to disk" warning. But it still created the file. Then I went to open up blahblah-OP1, and it said "Corrupt or Invalid File". WTF! But then I tried opening it again, and it opened.

[kunfuzed]

Now I've noticed a pattern, I have to open it twice each time. Even after shutting down and restarting Mcam

[Dan@home]

Working Fine..

[Mcam Nut]

So far I find x2 to be just as stable as v9. I had a few problems back with vx mr1, but it seems all the problems have been fixed

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

I find X2 more stable than all the other versions - even 6.13a.

 

Good Job CNC!!!!!

[gcode]

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Then I went to open up blahblah-OP1, and it said "Corrupt or Invalid File". WTF

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Are you opening from File/open or double clicking

a file in an Explorer window?

 

If you're doing it in File/Open make sure the file type drop down says *.MCX