Tuesday, 26 September 2023

Instability

 So Blender got increasingly unstable. Hugely frustrating! I wasn't using it regularly because I needed to progress my game project. However, last week I was getting regular crashes, then this week I couldn't even render a cube using Cycles.

I raised my first Blender bug.

I updated the drivers and my BIOS. An ex-work colleague warned me to check for some hardware error logs, which I found. He suggested that there might be a fault with my CPU. He had to get his CPU and motherboard replaced as a result of these errors. Sad times!

Well, last thing last night I installed some patches on Steam, one for Cyberpunk, which was also not working. Well it now works. I went back to Blender and...suddenly it works again!

Hurrah!


Blender is back! I'll do some work soon.


A simple test scene

A Blue Screen of Death that results


Pushing through hard stuff

 I'm making some progress on the terrain work. It's very slow and somewhat painstaking, as there are lots of complex parameters to t...