Max crashing during simulation when monitors are turned off

[Neilg]

Weird issue this - but whenever i've ran a simulation on a network machine it's completed the whole thing without crashing, but whenever I run one on my workstation overnight it inevitably always crashes a short time into it.
I just did a test where i start a simulation and then turned off my monitors, left it 5 minutes and turned them back on to find max had crashed with the error report up.

I'm using 2 monitors with a slightly different resolution - so when they get switched off a bunch of windows have been moved to the other when they end up back on, could that be the culprit? I currently have the gpu preview on in the viewport but i'm pretty sure it does this without that on too.

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Hmm, very strange. We've had those too from time to time on specific machines only... We gotta think about a way to make it reproducible.

If you have time for tests, can you confirm for sure that the GPU preview is off and it still crashes?

Also, I suppose you are using a recent nightly?

[Ivaylo Katev]

the only phoenix component that is dealing with the video card is the gpu preview, of course we can't be 100% sure, but let say 90% it's the gpu preview. perhaps context lost or something like this.

[Neilg]

Also, I suppose you are using a recent nightly?

Not very actually, it's a few months old - i'll update later today. I'll do more tests with the preview off too, but I could've sworn it happened regardless.