Doesn't 2012 make better use of memory?
That is debatable. I have been having a terrible time with maya 2012/13. My graphics hardware is getting old and some of the instability I have tracked to that, but I still think many of the crashes are memory related. I have been sending the crash dumps in to Autodesk and it seems windows (especially windows 7) has a desktop heap memory issue.
The number of other processes I have running has made a noticeable change in my crash rate. But once again it is a pain to have to kill everything I normally have running just to please Maya 2012, and something I never had to do with Maya 2009! Also, I run other 3D apps and they do not seem to care about my normal background apps.
Maya 2012 seems to really hate nvidia's control panel nview! I have been killing that alone and Maya seems to dump less. Although that seems to slow the paralysis it does not cure it. In the end I have to restart Maya over and over, replace my prefs file which constantly gets corrupted, or reboot the entire system. All of which are just speed bumps to productivity!
Oh and john if you are reading this I found and reported something interesting to Autodesk regarding the Error: Error parsing arguments on startup issue. I turned on report line number and every time it happens, I mean every single time (100%) it is on line number 762! I started seeing the pattern over the last two weeks and thought it was very odd that it is always the exact same line. Not sure what it means but sent Autodesk half a dozen different scene files that all have that problem to see if they can make sense of it.
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Isaac Newton, 1675
Last edited by ctbram; 02-05-2012 at 06:26 PM.