Fusion 360 gives me more problems lately by crashing and not responding. Whats going on?

[et.teljemo]

Hi,

First of all, I have an education licence.

I hope that wont have anything to do with my problems but I started having more issues at the same time the announcement about the new licence types. Nothing else is different in my workflow, hardware och model complexity.

I have always had fusion crash on me from time to time... Or the "component tree" turn black.. Or getting "not responding", having to wait it out hoping for the best, but now this happens all the time and not only in bi assembly's but also in single body projects. 

One example is a flat part shaped like a shield and with some text extruded trough it with cut. The size is about 200x200 mm.. This is not a model I would have had any problems with before. The text might give the body a couple of faces and some minor bugs with it not being completely "watertight" but that shouldn't make fusion crash or get non responsive.

Creating a new sketch on the body plane with text makes fusion crash.

Scale body makes fusion crash.

I Can do these things on my other PC but still a really hard operation for the machine when it really shouldn't be.

I have had this experience on 2 different PC's where the one less powerful still is a workstation laptop and the better one is my home workstation. 

The laptop cant handle much at all anymore and my other machine still get things done but really slow and a lot of waiting for fusion to respond again. Fusion crashes on this PC to but not every time.

Specs for my better PC:

CPU: i7-7700 3.60GHz

GPU: GeForce GTX 1070 (8 GB GDDR 5)

RAM: 32 GB

I have the latest updates and drivers and I have done read the "Slow performance" help guides available by Autodesk.

Whats going on? I mentioned this in another forum and several more fusion 360 users had the same experience while some didn't.

[HughesTooling]

I don't get many crashes, I use hibernate on my PC and can have Fusion running for a week or 2 without a crash. So either you have a problem with your install or pc or it's your designs. You'll need to supply some example designs to figure this out. From your talk of text, are you importing SVGs of DXFs with thousands of line segments? Or sketching on faces and have auto project enabled so you end up with a few thousand projections before you even start sketching? The black browser normally indicates something is not simple geometry but hundreds or thousand of entities. I could be wrong but you're not going to get the problem fixed without sharing examples.

Mark

[subversivespeed · Accepted solution]

Its not just you... Seems like there are some compatibility issues with some of the newer drivers for the Nvidia line of video cards... 

I had to revert the driver and run under dx9 compatibility and it helped both in win7 and in win10 machines. Also, Nvidia has "studio ready" drivers that seem to help stability issues also. Studio ready drivers are set up to be very stable. 

[et.teljemo]

I found the option to install studio driver on my big PC and It seems to be working a bit smoother. 🙂

My lap top doesn't even have Nvidia.. maybe that's the problem for that one..

Laptopspec:

CPU: i7 7500U 2,70GHz

RAM: 16 GB

GPU: AMD FirePro W4190M

[subversivespeed]

I would revert the AMD FirePro drivers back if you can, and/or force dx9 compatibility on the laptop and give that a try.