Fusion 360 Crashing on 2009 Mac Pro

[rolandoc]

Hi,

I get a lot of crashes when I switch to rendering mode as well as when I enlarge my window to full size. I am using a 2009 8-Core Mac Pro with 32 gigs of ram and 500 megs of VRam. I often have to work with a very small window to avoid crashes which defeats the purpose of having a 30 inch monitor.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thank you in advance!

[Phil.E]

What is your video card spec?

What version of OSX?

Also, I don't see any recent CER reports from you. The last one was from May. Please fill out these when you get them. It helps tremendously.

Thanks for your help!

[Oceanconcepts]

I have seen much the same on my 27" iMac, and suspect it is related to having only 500 meg v-ram, and/or the 2009 era video card. I can't work in full screen, or even with a large window, and have stability. Reports are that improvements to Mac video efficiency are coming in the update Tuesday. 

Phil- if his experience is like mine, the application starts misbehaving and locks up, requiring a force quit. The CER window never comes up in these instances. That's about 95% of the crashes for me. 

[Phil.E]

Usually it has more to do with small video cards running large monitors.

I can make my MacBook Air with Intel HD 3000 graphics onboard run a 28" UHD monitor. It does just fine until it doesn't. 🙂

[Oceanconcepts]

In my case it's the built in monitor, and Fusion worked fine, graphics-wise, running full screen until the last product update, when these issues around graphics suddenly came up for lots of folks. 

[Phil.E]

What is your graphics card model/memory?

[Oceanconcepts]

Phil,

Like the OP, I'm on a 2009 era Mac. ATI Radeon HD 4850 512 MB- since the last update, this has not been sufficient to run Fusion in a full sized window. 

[Phil.E]

Yes the update should address this.

In the meantime, have you tried reducing video pressure via these methods?

http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-fusion/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles...

[Oceanconcepts]

Yep, none of the changes suggested there seemed to have much effect, except that unless anti-aliasing is turned off, Fusion is completely unusable regardless of window size. Reducing the window size seems to be the only way I can keep running. Looking forward to the update, for this and other reasons!

[rolandoc]

Thanks for the replys everyone. My Video card is the ATI Radeon HD 4850 512 MB. I rarely get a submit error report window when Fusion crashes. 95% of the time I lock up and I have to force quit. So far nothing has helped with the Fusion window size. I can only work in a small window. As soon as I enlarge the window I lock up and have to force quit. I can only have the ground plane turned on under effects. Anything else on(ie Ground Shadow, Ground Reflection, Ambient Occlusion, etc) causes sporatic lockups.

[DaveMoi]

I have a 2013 MacPro with 64GB ram dual D700 and 6 core processor. I'm experiencing the same crashes. For me the app is not usuable at this time. I'm not able to display submenu's either. The app just locks up when I try to select a centered circle for example...

-David

[Phil.E]

David-

What video card are you using?

Thanks,