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Truespace might never have been known for its stability but during the last months my TS 6.6 install have become increasingly instable.

I also have a trouble with a plugin, the hide object, that refuses to work if I opens a file within TS - I have to open the file, close Truespace and then restart it - then it works...
Can this plugin be the source of my problems with stability?
How do I uninstall a plugin from Truespace? I only manage to load them...

If you don't think it is the plugin, do you have any other suggestions to what I can do? Do I need to reinstall Truespace or do I need to reinstall entire Windows to solve my problems?
Or is it some new Windows patch that have made TS unstable?

Can you give us more information about your PC ....

Windows version
Direct X version
RAM installed
Disk drive info:
- total disk size
- disk space available
- paging file size

Don't load too many tsx.

It could indeed be a buggy tsx causing the instability.

To uninstall, Hold Shift key and then click/drag the tsx icon (NOT the blue plugin icon you use to load them) to the tS Trashcan icon in the lower left corner.

When you see a little red X appear, drop it in the Trashcan.

That's it, it's uninstalled.

You can use tS built in 'invisible' toggle or use layers to make things visible/invisible so you may not need that plugin at all.

Run with as few as you can is a good rule of thumb.

v3rd3 wrote:Can you give us more information about your PC ....

Windows version
Direct X version
RAM installed
Disk drive info:
- total disk size
- disk space available
- paging file size

Hi, I needed to come home from work to be able to answer these questions.... =)

Windows version:
Windows XP 64 bit
DirectX - 9.0c
RAM - 8 Gb
Disk:
100 Gb
~25 Gb available
paging file - 8 gb (2 gb used)


Thank you for your help, both you and spacedekt. I will try to uninstall the plugin. But how do I toogle a separate object visible/hidden in Ts? I know about layers but the hide object plugin is more practical when you model.

One potential problem is the 64 bit XP. Truespace is a 32 bit application... so are the plug-ins.... some will fail simply because they are not compatible with 64 bit operating environment.

To hide objects open up the scene editor ... select the object you want to hide in the list ... right click on it and then check or uncheck the visible item on the menu list.

v3rd3 wrote:One potential problem is the 64 bit XP. Truespace is a 32 bit application... so are the plug-ins.... some will fail simply because they are not compatible with 64 bit operating environment.

To hide objects open up the scene editor ... select the object you want to hide in the list ... right click on it and then check or uncheck the visible item on the menu list.

Thank you for your help, I will try that.
When it comes to problem being the 64 bit OS - it have been working perfectly before on the same OS. So there is obviously something that have changed that made TS unstable - not the OS in itself.
I will see if it works better without this plug-in.

Sorry, my impression was that the plugin was a new thing you were using.

To toggle invisibility in tS 6.6:

Select your object.
Right Click Object Tool to open Object Info Panel.
Expand panel by clicking the red triangle.
Click Render Options box.
This opens Object Render Options panel.
Hover your mouse cursor over the invisible check box and then press Control/F1 keys.
This brings up the hotkey panel- input your desired hotkey for instance, Control I.
Now hitting hotkey will cycle between visible/ invisible.

Click File/Save/Hotkeys.

Another tool that comes in handy is the Unhide All. It's in the same flyout as the object tool.
This is also a good one to hotkey as it will reveal all hidden objects with one click.

You could try turning off multi threading.. which is something I have to do other wise TS crashes when rendering or when material windows refresh If you get dispaly problems, like the work area freezes try using wireframe instead of direct X or if you use a Nvidia card try setting Anti Alias down to 2 in the Nvidia control panel

I removed the hide object extension and now Ts seams to be more stable again.
Thank you all for your help.

compPanda wrote:I removed the hide object extension and now Ts seams to be more stable again.
Thank you all for your help.

Very cool. TSX's written for previous versions of TS don't always work properly. I had one for TS 3.2 that would load under TS 6, but it never ran right stabley, but once I removed it TS 6 began to run normally again.