Hard crash on generation.

[Mooseboy]

Hello everyone! I'm new to the forum and new to the program. I love what I've been able to do so far, but I've recently run into quite a wall.

I downloaded the free version of 3df Zephyr and began using it. I started with a simple can just to test it out. When I generated my first model, I used maxed out settings to give the program a push and see what it could do. Everything worked out fine. Fast forward a few days and suddenly any time I try to generate a sparse point cloud my computer hard crashes. Shuts off, restarts, dead. I've switched to the lowest settings, still hard crashes. I've changed my picture format from RAW to TIFF to PNG, 16 bit to 8 bit, ran MemTest86 to make sure my RAM was ok. Fired up some games/benchmarks to make sure my graphics card was fine. I'm stumped and frustrated. I can't for the life of me figure out why one day it would be fine, firing on all cylinders and the next it would be knocking my computer out. If anyone has any insight or advise, it would be greatly appreciated. I was looking into buying the light version, but if I can't get it to work with only 50 pictures, I know I won't be able to get it to work with 200+.

Thanks for the help and the time.

[Roberto]

Hi Mooseboy,

sorry about your issue. From the log it seems to crash when loading images from disk to ram. In that part it's using the cpu intensively, so I don't think it's a gpu problem.
My guess is either a temperature / cpu problem, the power supply not providing enough energy or the memory.

For the temperature, you can easily check it with utilities such as http://openhardwaremonitor.org/
For the memory you have already done memtest86, so I think it's ok.
For the cpu, I would try to run some benchmark or extensive test like http://www.superpi.net/
Or some diagnostic tool: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/dow...iagnostic-Tool

Finally, you can have a look at the windows event viewer (system -> error messages before reboot) to check for additional information.

Hope this helps