Revit Closing Without Warnings

[kyler]

Hey everyone,

I don't know if anybody else has experienced this, I'm sure I'm not the only one who has. It's one thing for Revit to give you some kind of error message, but when it just closes without any type of warning, it really grinds my gears. I will be working in Revit Architectural 2010 one second and the next I'm looking at my desktop! Any ideas, anything other than saving every 5 minutes would be a help. Thanks.

A very frustrated Revit User

Kyle

[twiceroadsfool]

Hey everyone,

I don't know if anybody else has experienced this, I'm sure I'm not the only one who has. It's one thing for Revit to give you some kind of error message, but when it just closes without any type of warning, it really grinds my gears. I will be working in Revit Architectural 2010 one second and the next I'm looking at my desktop! Any ideas, anything other than saving every 5 minutes would be a help. Thanks.

A very frustrated Revit User

Kyle

Its an issue of not having sufficient memory, so the program is simply axed by the OS. Revit 2010 is- to say the least- very memory intensive.

Specs on machine and stats of model youre working in?

If you do a search, there are also "memory leak" problems with revit 2010. I personally have found them exaggerated if youre flipping between multiple files, but i have no actual data to support that. Search around, its common. Start saving pennies for more hardware. :)

[kyler]

These are my computer specs:

AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual
Core Processor 5200+
2.71 GHZ, 3.25 GB of RAM

Does that help?

[twiceroadsfool]

These are my computer specs:

AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual
Core Processor 5200+
2.71 GHZ, 3.25 GB of RAM

Does that help?

Im guessing by 3.25GB of RAM that youre on Windows XP 32 bit? Or with the athlon 64 are you running vista?

And how big is the model youre playing with?

[kyler]

I'm running XP, and the file is 83.7MB.

[twiceroadsfool]

I'm running XP, and the file is 83.7MB.

Okay... Is it XP32 or XP64? In either case, it sounds like youre getting a little close to the maximum its going to handle without upgrading to more memory on your system. On XP32 in version 2008 we were doing okay up til about 175-200 MB central files... But 2008 was much less memory intensive than 2010 is.

[still.james]

These are my computer specs:

AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual
Core Processor 5200+
2.71 GHZ, 3.25 GB of RAM

Does that help?

i have the same problem and almost same machine!

[Jun Austria]

I'm running XP, and the file is 83.7MB.

This is one problem I have that I cannot also resolve. But it seems to happen on x64 machine only, Vista and XP.
In my room, 5 CPU. 3 running XP x64 with 4 Gig RAM. 1 Vista x64 w/ 4 Gig Ram and myself a x86 Vista with 4 Gig of Ram. Ever since I started using RAC 2010 on x86 Vista. I haven't encounter any crashes yet. But all the x64 machines are experiencing crashes. The only workaround we have is constant reminder to save. Hope the factory can remedy this soon.

Edited:
I didnt know this was already been observed..http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=111026&page=2

[mark.98140]

same issue... vista 64, 8mb ram, dual zeon 2.8, nividia quaddro fx 4600, revit 2010, crashes frequently without warning... very frustrating....

[patricks]

That's interesting, I haven't had any 2010 crashes since switching to Windows 7 x64 on my dual dual-core Xeon machine, other than crashes relating to dropped network connection. If the network connection is dropped and you have a workshared file open, it WILL crash (but allow you to save) no matter what you do.

My boss, on the other hand, has had several 2010 crashes in Windows 7 x64, some of which were related to printer drivers or other drivers. Not sure what the other couple of crashes he had were related to.

[..shaner]

.... i have this problem too.. do you think autodesk would be willing to send someone to my office to redo all the work ive been loosing? :-)

... i think its a fair request.

[mcolonna]

make sure you have the 3GB switch from autodesk - no matter how much mem you have - the instructions are on the Audtodesk website

[cliff collins]

Ummm...

The 3 gig switch is not from Autodesk. It is simply a way to "boot" windows and
trick it into using more RAM than allocated by default. The limitation is 4GB with 32 bit systems.

This is why 64 bit OS is preferred--because it can use as much RAM as you can plug into the slots in your computer--which is a big advantage for using Revit, esp. on larger size files--say over 80 GB.

cheers.............

[patricks]

make sure you have the 3GB switch from autodesk - no matter how much mem you have - the instructions are on the Audtodesk website

3GB switch is part of Windows, not from Autodesk. It also only applies to 32-bit systems. Using it with 3GB of actual memory or less will likely cause other issues with the system and/or other programs.

[mcolonna]

THE INSTRUCTIONS are on the autodesk website. sorry!