Hard crashing with meshes

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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Hi. I have a good workstation with 32G Ram and continually have total computer lockups when selecting meshes, especially when switching to another program and then coming back to Rhino. Granted these are large complex meshes, but it is extremely troublesome. Is there a way to allocate memory to Rhino so this won’t happen, or at least it doesn’t require a computer reboot to recover?

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Impossible to guess with so little information.

  1. Run the Rhino SystemInfo command and reply with the results.
  2. See if the file has any bad objects in it using the SelBadObjects command.
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John,

Rhino 7 SR12 2021-11-9 (Rhino 7, 7.12.21313.06341, Git hash:master @ 5590153808223b57a9f41516a969fd949aa81bff)
License type: Commercial, build 2021-11-09
License details: Cloud Zoo

Windows 10.0.19042 SR0.0 or greater (Physical RAM: 32Gb)

Computer platform: DESKTOP

Standard graphics configuration.
Primary display and OpenGL: Intel(R) HD Graphics 530 (Intel) Memory: 1GB, Driver date: 10-17-2017 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.5.0 - Build 22.20.16.4836
> Integrated graphics device with 3 adapter port(s)
- Windows Main Display attached to adapter port #0
- Secondary monitor attached to adapter port #1

OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On
Graphics level being used: OpenGL 4.5 (primary GPU’s maximum)

Anti-alias mode: 4x
Mip Map Filtering: Linear
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: High

Vendor Name: Intel
Render version: 4.5
Shading Language: 4.50 - Build 22.20.16.4836
Driver Date: 10-17-2017
Driver Version: 22.20.16.4836
Maximum Texture size: 16384 x 16384
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 16384 x 16384
Total Video Memory: 1 GB

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
C:\Users\1mike\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\7.0\Plug-ins\KeyShot10RhinoPlugin (ccedd9da-83b9-429a-aec5-8ec90b85fe67)\1.0.0.0\KeyShot10RhinoPlugin\Rhino 5.0\KeyShot10RhinoPlugin.rhp “KeyShot10RhinoPlugin” 1.0.0.0

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 7.12.21313.6341
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\WebBrowser.rhp “WebBrowser”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 7.12.21313.6341
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 7.12.21313.6341
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk_ui.rhp “Renderer Development Kit UI”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 7.12.21313.6341
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 7.12.21313.6341
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”

Also, there are no doubt bad objects imported - meshmixer - so fix those first?

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You are running on a computer that is grossly inadequate for running Rhino.
This is mostly due to the inadequate Intel GPU.
Making it worse is your driver is archaic.

If I were you, I would do 2 things:

  1. Update the GPU driver: Search - Intel.com

  2. Unplug the second monitor as you do not have enough display resource to run 1 monitor let alone 2.

  3. Since it is a desktop, you may be able to add a good GPU like an NVIDIA RTX with as much VRAM and CUDA cores as you can afford.

  4. Or buy a computer that will run Rhino well: If you are buying a new laptop READ THIS

Any luck?

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So, 4 G of vram, that’s what causing this? I guess I’ll get a new video card. I’ll try the driver too. Thanks for the help.

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No. You’re reading that incorrectly.
A minimum of 4 GB VRAM for each standard resolution monitor.
You have 2 monitors so 8 is the minimum. More is recommended.
Pick a card with lots of CUDA cores for speeding up GPU based rendering.

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Gotcha, will do.

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