Hi all,
I have problems with OBD Update 8 and / or MicroStation Update 15. All thing are working fine except 2: every time I try to use Material Editor or Light Manager tools (either via ribbon, tasks or key-in), program crashes. All the other rendering related tools seem to work fine.
I have already installed and reinstalled video drivers, but even if I know I don't have the best computer and / or video card, all worked fine until last week ago or so. In fact I have an older Laptop in which both apps are working fine.
If it may help, I see that when I open a coordination model I have (not a lot of reference models, 15 or so) I noticed that window display is much slower, and is hard to rotate the display. May it be related with the render engine that is used for windows? QuickVision? Something related with PBR materials?
I have updated video drivers, and also tried to uninstall and delete all traces of any Bentley product, cleaned registry, etc etc, reinstalled all again and no luck.
Have these two tools something in common that I am missing and that may be the cause?
Thanks in advance,
Pedro
Hi Pedro,
Could you please provide the Exception History folder? it is the folder where MicroStation Exception logs and minidumps are created. This will help us to investigate what is happening
https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/microstation__wiki/8832/how-to-quickly-find-and-collect-exception-logs-and-minidump-files
I found a Defect related to material editor and light manager for update 15. are you rendering using path tracer?
Could you please check if the same crash happens if you change in the material editor and light manager the preview Mode to smooth shade or vue raytrace ?
Regards
Maria
Maria Garcia
Thanks for your help., Maria, I'll start trying with these options. Here you have the ExceptionHistory folder, I think it has 4 of them.
Regards,
0020.ExceptionHistory.rar
Pedro Martín García - BIM WIP
http://www.bimwip.com/ --- pmartgar@bimwip.com --- http://www.linkedin.com/in/pedromartingarcia/en
Thanks Pedro, logs have been sent to development for review. We will get back to you soon
Hi Maria
Well, I can't change that since I can't open any of them, that's the problem :-)
I noticed also that sometimes I got a crash if I move the Adjust View Brightness slider in any of the views. That's why I think it may be related with QuickVision. Surprisingly once I get the error, if I "ignore" it, I can keep on moving, zooming, chaning Display Style or adjusting Brightness slider without any further crash. So if it is something related with QV, it is something that only happens when iti is started.
Note: errors happens no matter what file is open. I mean, they are not linked to a corrupt window of a particular DGN.
Not reviewed logs and will leave for development comment via Maria, but we did have a similar report previously which lead to the following https://communities.bentley.com/products/bentley_internal_community_solutions/w/wiki/53284/microstation-crashes-when-opening-material-editor-dialog incase of any use to others.
Carl Myhill
Technical Support Engineer
Bentley Systems