Hi everyone,

Complete newbie to Houdini here.

I am using Houdini Apprentice to go through the Sidefx “Getting Started” lessons. I am on lesson 02 right now, the one where you replace geometry with lego bricks. http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1845&Itemid=351 [sidefx.com]

Houdini is crashing for me every time I start to bring in the blast and copy nodes as per the video tutorial instructions. It's not consistent either, sometimes it crashes after I connect the blast node, sometimes after I connect the copy node. Any help on this would be really appreciated…


system specs:
Windows 7, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 (updated drivers to latest version several weeks ago) 12 GB ram, Intel i7

Crash log:
Crash report from dsierra; Houdini Master Version 12.0.543.9
Traceback from Fri Apr 13 12:12:29 2012
Caught signal 11
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+0x5e409eef
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+0x5e2a10e2
+0x5e2a1581
+0x5dfd8b22
+0x064ce0be
+0x076fd618
+0x072bb29a
+0x072c25c0
+0x07701cd5
+0x07701e4d
+0x076fa1c3
+0x07701cd5
+0x07701e4d
+0x076fa1c3
+0x07701cd5
+0x07701e4d
+0x076fa1c3
+0x07701cd5
+0x07701e4d
+0x076fa1c3
+0x077a59d9
+0x077ad462
+0x077ad691
+0x0775df7e
+0x0775e33b
+0x0775e43e
+0x0775e4de
+0x07741cb0
+0x0758d0cf
+0x0758d66d
+0x4000225b
+0x76fcf33d
+0x77202cc1

You must update drivers for video and directX libruary :?

Hi AlexNoq, thanks for the reply. I updated my drivers for my graphics card already (Nvidia 296.10), but what's this about directX library?

Any other help? I'm not sure what you mean by updating drivers for DirectX library. Does Houdini rely on some DirectX libraries?

dsierra
Any other help? I'm not sure what you mean by updating drivers for DirectX library. Does Houdini rely on some DirectX libraries?

Houdini don't use directx so you don't need to update that. Unfortunately i do not know why it's crashing but it sure ain't directx.

Thanks Erik, that's good to know. I may have fixed the problem by just doing a Windows system update. So far no crashing….I got my fingers crossed, haha.