Maya 2018 Fatal Error. Attempting to save in C:

[creativeplanet]

Hello

I know this topic has been discussed many times. I have tried all the solutions proposed and it didn't help. Nevertheless I found the problem.  In my older render nodes I have an Nvidia Geforece 210 graphic cards:

https://www.asus.com/Graphics-Cards/2101GD3L/ - 1GB ram, while in newer render nodes I have Geforce 730 cards with 2 GB of ram.  When I updated maya to 2018.05 older render nodes started to carsh (they work with 2018 version). When the card has been replaced from 210 to 730 the Maya started to work. I wonder if there is a solution to fix the problem without upgrading cards in all render nodes ? We use the machines as render nodes (batch mode) so the graphic cards seem to be not that much important. 

here is an error we get:

Initialized VP2.0 renderer {
Version : 2016.11.40.12. Feature Level 3.1.
Adapter : GeForce 210/PCIe/SSE2
Vendor ID: 4318. Device ID : 2661
Driver : .
API : OpenGL V.3.3.
Max texture size : 8192 * 8192.
Max tex coords : 16
Shader versions supported (Vertex: 4, Geometry: 4, Pixel 4).
Shader compiler profile : (Best card profile)
Active stereo support available : 0
GPU Memory Limit : 1024 MB.
CPU Memory Limit: 31082.2 MB.
}
OpenCL evaluator is attempting to initialize OpenCL.
OpenCL evaluator failed to initialize clew.

****
* Arnold 5.2.1.0 [7c7c9701] windows icc-17.0.2 oiio-1.7.17 osl-1.9.9 vdb-4.0.0 clm-1.0.3.513 rlm-12.4.2 2018/10/19 21:35:58
* CRASHED in nvmlDeviceGetDetailedEccErrors
* signal caught: error C0000005 -- access violation
*
* backtrace:
* 0 0x00007ffa8ad6771e [ai ]
* 1 0x00007ffa8ad669bf [ai ]
* 2 0x00007ffadb6fbdd0 [KERNELBASE] UnhandledExceptionFilter
* 3 0x00007ffadedf3167 [ntdll ] memset
* 4 0x00007ffadeddb5e6 [ntdll ] _C_specific_handler
* 5 0x00007ffadedef7dd [ntdll ] _chkstk
* 6 0x00007ffaded5d856 [ntdll ] RtlWalkFrameChain
* 7 0x00007ffadedee70e [ntdll ] KiUserExceptionDispatcher
>> 8 0x0000000180063108 [nvml ] nvmlDeviceGetDetailedEccErrors
*
* loaded modules:
* 0x00007ffa8aab0000 ai
* 0x00007ffadb610000 KERNELBASE
* 0x00007ffaded50000 ntdll
* 0x0000000180000000 nvml
****
Stack trace:
ntdll.dll!RtlWalkFrameChain
ntdll.dll!KiUserExceptionDispatcher
nvml.dll!nvmlDeviceGetDetailedEccErrors
nvml.dll!nvmlDeviceGetDetailedEccErrors
nvml.dll!nvmlInternalGetExportTable
nvml.dll!nvmlSystemGetDriverVersion
optix.51.dll!rtTextureSamplerD3D9Unregister
optix.51.dll!rtTextureSamplerD3D9Unregister
optix.51.dll!rtTextureSamplerD3D9Unregister
optix.51.dll!rtTextureSamplerD3D9Unregister
optix.51.dll!rtTextureSamplerD3D9Unregister
optix.51.dll!rtDeviceGetDeviceCount
ai.dll!AiMsgWarning
ai.dll!AiFilterInitialize
ai.dll!AiMsgWarning
ai.dll!AiBegin
mtoa_api.dll!ArnoldUniverseBegin
mtoa.mll!initializePlugin
OpenMaya.dll!Tplugin::primaryLoad
OpenMaya.dll!Tplugin::load
OpenMaya.dll!TpluginPref::~TpluginPref
OpenMaya.dll!TpluginPref::~TpluginPref
OpenMaya.dll!TpluginPref::~TpluginPref
CommandEngine.dll!TmetaCommandPtrArray::catenate
CommandEngine.dll!TminMelArgList::nextDigit
CommandEngine.dll!melScanDouble
CommandEngine.dll!TminMelArgList::nextDigit
CommandEngine.dll!melScanDouble
CommandEngine.dll!TminMelArgList::nextDigit
CommandEngine.dll!TminMelArgList::nextDigit
CommandEngine.dll!melScanDouble
CommandEngine.dll!TminMelArgList::nextDigit
CommandEngine.dll!TminMelArgList::nextDigit
CommandEngine.dll!SophiaExecutable::evaluate
CommandEngine.dll!TcommandEngine::executeCommand
ExtensionLayer.dll!TidleScriptAction::doIdleAction
ExtensionLayer.dll!TidleAction::preDoIdleAction
ExtensionLayer.dll!TarrayTdeviceHandlerPtr::size
ExtensionLayer.dll!TeventHandler::doIdles
ExtensionLayer.dll!TidleLicenseAction::doIdleAction

[creativeplanet · Accepted solution]

I found the solution here:

https://answers.arnoldrenderer.com/questions/10228/c4d-doesnt-start-since-c4dtoa-update-240.html

It works for Maya as well. 

Answer by Stephen Blair · Nov 02, 2018 at 05:15 PM

If you rename

C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVSMI\nvml.dll

to

C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVSMI\nvml.bak

does CINEMA 4D start?

thanks

Maciej