CC3+ failing to save - is it a processing conflict?
Loopysue
ProFantasy 🖼️ 40 images Cartographer
My CC3+ has just started to shut down during save operations, without saving the work I've done.
Could it be that the three browser windows I have open at the same time to keep an eye on both this forum and Cartographer's Guild, (as well as my email) are somehow interfering with the processing space that CC3+ requires?
I know CC3+ only uses 2 of my 4 processors, but maybe the way my machine processes my broadband input/output is interfering with the 2 its using?
Could it be that the three browser windows I have open at the same time to keep an eye on both this forum and Cartographer's Guild, (as well as my email) are somehow interfering with the processing space that CC3+ requires?
I know CC3+ only uses 2 of my 4 processors, but maybe the way my machine processes my broadband input/output is interfering with the 2 its using?
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And it shuts down in what way? Is there a crash dialog or does the CC3+ just disappear after you click save?
Does it have this behavior on all maps or just a particular one?
Does it happen with Save As or just with save?
This is happening with the Merelan City file. I now have over 80 Sheets and counting, and each of those have at least two sheet effects. There is also a very large bitmap in that file, that controls the relief effect - a black and white image imposed on the landscape with a multiply blend mode. Because its a bitmap and not a vector image I have had to use sufficient resolution to preserve the fine detail of the underlying Sheets, so that really IS a big bitmap (5000pix5000pi).
There's no crash dialogue, other than xyz.exe has stopped working and than it just vanishes (So quickly I haven't been able to catch it in a screen shot or tell you what the name of the exe file is, but I think its CC3 itself).
Its not an emergency from my point of view, because my autosave is set for every five minutes, so I haven't lost anything much just yet, but I understand that Storm has a similar problem with her latest CG Challenge map, which is a little more worrying, because that is no way as large as the Merelan City map in terms of memory usage. Having just read what I've written so far - how curious that CC3 has no problem autosaving the file, but when I hit the disc icon... fitz, and its gone.
I haven't been working on any other maps for the last three weeks - not since I started Merelan City. I don't know if Storm has found the same problem with any of hers other than the Challenge map. I didn't mither her for information because it was gone midnight in her time zone when we discovered we had a shared problem with the saving of files. I expect she will add her own information when she logs on a bit later.
I can send you the Merelan City file as it stands if you like - just to have a play. Just let me know where to send it if you want it.
EDIT: I will have to send you all the bitmaps that it uses separately and you will then have to reload them into the map so you can see what you're doing.
Oh yes - I haven't used Save As more than about 4 times in the last three weeks. I know that because I only have 4 versions of the Merelan City map. It hasn't crashed once when I used Save As.
I try to save often. Some of my maps go up to 100 saves or more. Filename01_0001, then do some work, filename01_0002, etc. I had a crash myself this morning, but only about 5 minutes of work. I got it out of my brain, and I think I got it all put back. So, I know when the creative urge hits, its hard to stop and do saves... but its better to make saves more often. That has saved more than one of my projects.