Problems with Render Window

[Tosek]

Hi there,

Blender (latest Release for Windows) works fine on my machine, until I press F12 (Render Window).

When I do that, the complete UI of Blender is black und the Blender Main programm doesn't react anymore. I can close the render window, but that doesn't bring blender back to life.

Any ideas? Do I have to tune my OGL settings in any special way?

My machine specs:
Windows 98se
512 MB RAM
ATI Radeon 9600 XT with latest Omega drivers.


Thanx in advance
Torsten

[Matthe]

Do you use blender in fullscreen? If yes try windowed mode.

hope it works

matthe

[Tosek]

hmmmm. Fullscreen?
I just start blender as default. I never heard about an option to start fullscreen or windowed.

How do I do that?

[z3r0_d]

hmmmm. Fullscreen?
I just start blender as default. I never heard about an option to start fullscreen or windowed.

How do I do that?

add -w to the end of the target on the shortcut

if windows doesn't let you press the OK button put the other part in double quotes, like:
"c:\program files\blender foundation\blender\blender.exe" -w

that is a lowercase w btw

[Tosek]

And what is the option key for fullscreen?

[_styken]

I had the same problem, but then I saw a ATI application runnning which I closed (CTRL+ALT+DEL), and the problem is gone!

//styken

[Tosek]

I will try that out at home. Thanx for the hint

[_styken]

Sad to say I found out that my "fix" was not so good. I get the same problem again plus the funky feature that the main window GUI is drawn in the render window. Some window pointers seems to get mixed up.

OS: Win 98SE
Blender: 2.33 and latest CVS
Video: ATI 9600XT with latest drivers and an old dll for speed fix.

I'll try to browse through the code to see if there is any obvious problems...

//styken