CC3 Exporting in higher res continually crashes

Evilref · October 2010

I have a small map I've been trying to export as a bmp or png file to do some work in photoshop with. Whenever I try to export in high res (2200 by 3300 at 99% anti alias) it crashes. In fact any export large enough to have some detail for zooming in with is crashing.

I am running windows 7 and have cc3 fully patched.

Monsen · October 2010

With 99% anti-alias, CC3 will need to export a map that is 10,000 times larger than your specified dimensions (220,000 x 330,000 pixels), requiring about 202GB of memory. You really need to cut back that anti-alias value (Try 50%)

Simon Rogers · October 2010

To antialias, you need to create a large image, then filter it. As Monsen suggests, at 99%, that's vast image, more than any piece of software on a PC can handle. Try without antialias to establish the maximum size your system will cope with, and then try antialias. Really, beyond 25%, there really isnt' much point.

Kelron · September 2011

Hello all,

I have a problem, when making City maps. Maybe someone can help me.

Whenever I want to open a city with a style (for instance John Speed), CC3 crashes after saving the fcw-file: It doesn`t respond any more and the tast must be terminated. When I reopen CC3, it shows the last map opened before and all houses of the style are black instead of white, but can be placed on the non-city map.

What can I do? What is wrong here?

I installed in the following order:
1) CC3 & Update
2) SS1 symbol pack
3) Annuals 2007-2010
4) CD3 & ScreenFix & HighRes Textures

I use a lenovo SL-510 with Win7 32 bit and 4 GB Ram, maybe this is a problem with the graphics card? But strangely I was able start a map, place 5 houses, save and exit. Afterwards I wasn`t able to reload it.

All other maps work great and I`m very happy CC3! A great tool!

Thanks in advance and best regards

EDIT:
After a restart the problem doesn`t appear any more! I hope that it will stay that way

Robak · April 2012

I would like to export a map as a 12000 times 9000 Pixel rectangular section JPEG jpg without any Antialias.
I use the options Quality 75.

Every time I try this Fcw32.exe crashes.

Why does this happen?

With best regards
Robak

Ralf · April 2012

With 12,000 by 9000 pixel you might be beyond the limits of your CC3/Your system combination. Mine is about 10,000 by 10,000 pixel which is usually more than enough for anything. What is the end result you are looking for? What print size?

Robak · April 2012

I have a request for my [url=http://galerie.wolkenturm.de/gal/dbernhardt/iin_gesamtkarte_gross.jpg]Inseln im Nebel[/url]-Map. The user is interesting to combine the Map with a location Database and needs a 1000 Pixel per 300 km resolution.
He asked my for a 12000x9000 Pixel Map

In principle I can export 2,4,8 or 16 smaller Maps and he can combine them with gimp or photoshop but in principle one of the biggest advantages of CC3 is that maps could be produced with any number of pixels.

My Laptop is less then a year old and has 8 GByte DDR3 Ram and a NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M.
This crash size is the same as for my old Laptop which had much less RAM and a much less power full graphic board

Are there any settings I can change to allow CC3 to export the Map in such a resolution?

With best regards

Robak

Robak · April 2012

Does this mean that there is no solution?
Due you plan to exchange the crash through a warning "sorry our program is not able to export maps with a resolution above ... Pixel"?

regards
Robak

Ralf · April 2012

There is currently no direct solution, but we are working on better export handling in the next version. Cutting export off at some specific point is difficult, because different systems are able to handle different sizes.

There is workaround to get higher resolutions though in that you can print via pdf and save the export as a PNG file. Simon posted how to do this a while back:

Posted By: Simon Rogers
I've found a way of doing this using PDF Creator, an open source print driver which exports in many formats. I got a 6600 px image from this.

1. In CC3 set Tools >> Options Resolution Divided by to 2.
2. Print >> Set the printer to PDF Creator.
3. Click Properties >> Advanced, set the resolution 1200dpi, and the paper size to letter.
4. Print.
5. When you see the PDF Creator dialog, click Options and choose PNG, set the resolution to 600 dpi.
6. Click Save, pull down the file type to be PNG and and type a file name.

It might vary from drawing to drawing and system to system, but it's seems to give good high res results.

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