The problem should be fixed is in Sofitmage : having the progress dialog in a separate thread, plus poll for the cancel button more often, so that you can click cancel (although ICE may not be able to cancel in the middle of a frame)
For the other problems, the "unresponsive" message windows gives is a symptom, it isn't the cause of the problem. Is the problem that windows is graying out Softimage's window? If so, the only work-around for not is to ... browse the web/check mail on something another machine. But if you want to try changing the "unresponsive" time out value, you can try this (reboot after change) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc978614.aspx On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Sebastian Kowalski <l...@sekow.com> wrote: > i understand, but is this something i have to live with, or is there some > kind of workaround? > like setting the win7 "not responding" threshold higher … > dont get me wrong, i understand that softimage has to process all that crap i > told it to do (siming, caching ..) > but that not responding, not able to stop or the worst case not displaying/ > caching when playing forward is not acceptable. > i use softimage as fx tool these days and mostly just waiting for the gui to > come back is exhausting. > > btw. updating the quadro driver helped a bit, the window switching is gone. > > > > > > > Am 17.04.2013 um 15:35 schrieb Luc-Eric Rousseau <luceri...@gmail.com>: > >> it's not necessarily unusual to get the "unresponsive" message if >> you're doing "heavier sims and/ or try to cache" It might also worsen >> if the file I/O is expensive, for example if you're writing to the >> network of a compress/encrypted drive. The UI is not running in a >> separate thread in XSI, so when it runs a sim it's taking breaks every >> once in a while to process messages (especially for the Cancel button >> on the progress bar), but those pauses can be too far in-between if >> each frame is heavy. >> >> Windows's window manager is putting up that message for any >> application that stops processing windows messages for more than a >> couple of seconds. It doesn't mean the application is hung and needs >> to be killed. It just means it's hasn't redrawn its window and >> processed mouse messages for a while. >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 6:34 AM, Sebastian Kowalski <l...@sekow.com> wrote: >>> ive updated the gpu driver, lets see how softimage behaves today.. >>> cant really repro that, kinda random behavior. >>> its a brand new hp z820 i am working on. but i had this flaws for some time >>> now, on different machines. >>> >>> well get back at you >>> s. >>> >>> Am 17.04.2013 um 04:02 schrieb Chris Chia <chris.c...@autodesk.com>: >>> >>>> Hi Sebastian, >>>> Could you give us some info? Like any repro steps? And what's your machine >>>> specs? >>>> Also have you updated your graphics driver and cleared the XSI preference >>>> folder? >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Chris >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com >>>> [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Sebastian >>>> Kowalski >>>> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 10:28 PM >>>> To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com >>>> Subject: unresponsive under win7 >>>> >>>> it doesnt matter if I have aero switched on or not, soft is unresponive, >>>> switching to other apps in the background or freezing up when running some >>>> heavier (even when they are running only on one thread) sims and/ or try >>>> to cache. and sometimes its not even writing the caches. its not crashing, >>>> it is coming back at some point (end of framerange) is this something only >>>> my side, or is somebody experiencing the same? >>>> >>>> its so frustrating! >> > >
