<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "himanshu.gautam" <<a href="mailto:developer.forums@amd.com">developer.forums@amd.com</a>><br>Date: Jan 19, 2013 2:36 PM<br>Subject: Re: What's wrong with this file? | AMD Developer Forums<br>
To: "nazim mer" <<a href="mailto:nazim.mer@gmail.com">nazim.mer@gmail.com</a>><br><br type="attribution"><u></u>
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</div><div><p><span style="color:#000000">Underhood,</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000">I tried this on a machine with 4GB of RAM... I followed the repro case given by Nazim (the one with screenshots).</span></p><p>
<span style="color:#000000">I was not using any external blend file. Just the default one that Blender starts with (in line with Nazim's steps for repro)</span></p><p><span style="color:#000000">The application consumed some 800MB of RAM before crashing and there was still some free memory left.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000">I am using 12.10 Cat Driver on Windows 7, 64-bit machine.</span></p><p style="min-height:8pt;min-height:8pt;padding:0px"><span style="color:#000000"> </span> </p><p><span style="color:#000000">AMD's engineering team is already aware of this issue and are tracking the same. FYI.</span><br>
<span style="color:#000000">At the moment, there is no known workaround. </span></p><p><span style="color:#000000">However, if the Blender team is open to optimizing their code for AMD HW, the engg team may be able to suggest some changes. </span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000">For example, the VRay App that suffers from a similar issue got some massive improvements by moving to native functions. </span></p><p><span style="color:#000000">Hope this helps,</span></p>
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