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Help, Archicad 11 keeps crashing!

Anonymous
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My archicad 11 just keeps crashing on my computer in 5 minutes right after it starts. Can anyone here give me an idea or even a hint about how to fix it

My computer configuration as listed:
P4 (3.00GHz);2G RAM; NVIDIA GF FX 5500(256M); WINDOWS XP SP2
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Barry Kelly
Moderator
grateful wrote:
My archicad 11 just keeps crashing on my computer in 5 minutes right after it starts. Can anyone here give me an idea or even a hint about how to fix it

My computer configuration as listed:
P4 (3.00GHz);2G RAM; NVIDIA GF FX 5500(256M); WINDOWS XP SP2
Make sure you have the latest video card drivers.
That's always a good place to start.
many crashing problems occur because of openGL.
Were you trying a 3D view by any chance when it crashed?
Were you doing anything in particular that caused the crash?

Barry.
One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
Dell XPS- i7-6700 @ 3.4Ghz, 16GB ram, GeForce GTX 960 (2GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11
Anonymous
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Barry wrote:
grateful wrote:
My archicad 11 just keeps crashing on my computer in 5 minutes right after it starts. Can anyone here give me an idea or even a hint about how to fix it

My computer configuration as listed:
P4 (3.00GHz);2G RAM; NVIDIA GF FX 5500(256M); WINDOWS XP SP2
Make sure you have the latest video card drivers.
That's always a good place to start.
many crashing problems occur because of openGL.
Were you trying a 3D view by any chance when it crashed?
Were you doing anything in particular that caused the crash?

Barry.
Barry, thanks for your quick reply. I just got the IT staff in my office to look after it. After he loaded an exe file, called '169.21_forceware_winxp_32bit_english_whql.exe', the crashing stopped. Hopefully, its gone forever. Fingercrossing...
Very grateful
Barry Kelly
Moderator
grateful wrote:
Barry, thanks for your quick reply. I just got the IT staff in my office to look after it. After he loaded an exe file, called '169.21_forceware_winxp_32bit_english_whql.exe', the crashing stopped. Hopefully, its gone forever. Fingercrossing...
Very grateful
I never would have guessed that one

Barry.
One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
Dell XPS- i7-6700 @ 3.4Ghz, 16GB ram, GeForce GTX 960 (2GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11
Anonymous
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hey guys...yeah unfortunately we haven't got a tech department, but i am having the same problem. i was working on archicad last night, doing mostly 3D drawing, no problem there, shut the computer down last night, and now everytime i open up archicad it shuts down right away, even before i am prompted to open or browse for a new project. It just wont load! AHH!!!