Sfm - Crashes - Often

[Bearded Squirrel]

My Source Filmmaker crashes quite a lot. Tries to export my poster, tries to do basically anything. Crashes. Is it temporary for everyone or is just for me?

- Cubone

[x3j50]

Me to its crash in the middle of animating so it dindt save probaly cause its a bad computer

[R234]

It's usually a good idea to post your system specs (CPU, GPU, memory, laptop vs desktop) when asking about this sort of stuff.

What I can tell you is that some users have a hard time with it, while for others it works like a charm. Seems SFM can be a bit finicky, especially towards laptops. It is still in beta, after all.

As an example, on my previous rig (Athlon 64 X2, Radeon HD 4850, 4 Gigs RAM desktop) it ran fine, with some issues here and there. dmxconvert.exe trouble for instance, which made working with particles a bit of a pain. On my spanking new rig (8-core I7, GTX 770, 8 Gigs RAM desktop (I was literally giggling like a little girl when I launched Tomb Rader maxed out on it, having a powerful machine is a wonderful feeling I hadn't tasted in a while)) it runs 100% perfectly, no crashes or bugs whatsoever. Lucky for me, I guess ;)

[Aa21]

have you tried running SFM in low setting?

[RatchetMario [Thelombax51]]

this cause sometimes for me as well, its depends on CPU, GPU, RAM or memory on your PC you using.

[_Murigo]

My SFM crashes when i load a map... any help?

[Jellyfish]

Keep in mind Sfm is still in beta, there are still a lot of bugs they need to work out