I am running MB ver 1.06, I’ve suddenly developed crash-itis. Been purring like a kitten since I first installed on its release, started yesterday when I cleaned up a directory. Opened a working mud file, tried to subdivide the mesh I had worked on successfully previously and crash.
reopened the app, created a cube, mudbox crashes on creation.
The app has worked for too long to be a driver issue, as I have installed the latest drivers.
Any ideas?

I had a similar problem. This worked:

Try closing Mudbox and then go to the C:Documents and SettingsUserMy DocumentsMudbox dir and delete the Mudbox 1.0 directory there along with the setting directory inside. Mudbox will create a new settings directory once you restart the application

good luck

Alex

I had a similar problem. This worked:

Try closing Mudbox and then go to the C:Documents and SettingsUserMy DocumentsMudbox dir and delete the Mudbox 1.0 directory there along with the setting directory inside. Mudbox will create a new settings directory once you restart the application

good luck

Alex

Thanks for the help Alex, worked great!

Hi there,

I’m new to the program and I’m having this same problem.
Unfortunately I’m a pc thickhead… so would there be any chance you can post that directory with all the proper slashes, etc for me Alex?
Thnx
Blobs

Here ya go:

C:\Documents and Settings\"user"\My Documents\Mudbox\Mudbox 1.0\settings

The “user” part is probably “Administrator” if you haven’t changed it.

Good luck

Alex

Ahh you’re a star! Thnx, that seems to have done the trick already :)

Glad it worked. happy Muddeling

I know this is a little old, but anyone have any idea what’s causing this? I believe this has started happening to me. Mostly when I drop down subdivsion levels and readjust my mesh with the Soft B brush.

I don’t have an answer for you, but that’s exactly what stopped me upgrading from the trial version.
The initial fix worked but once I started subdivisions it just didn’t hold up anymore, which is a huge shame because I love what I learned from using this prog.. I hope you guys can iron out this fault completely eventually.

Cheers :)

I am getting crashes at my first shift+d.  A little indicator gets to 90% on the bottom and then MB hangs.

I deleted the config.

The mesh is clean and has nice UVs, all quads, all UV’d.  I have gotten other meshes to go through, so I see it as a mesh particular issue, but I still thought throwing this out there was still a good idea.

i had the same issue and i tracked down the cause and fixed it before i thought of looking here. :o

what happened to me is i was watching the digital tutors video on mudbox and running mudbox and a bunch of other aps at the same time. mudbox them would not run and would crash about 15 sec after starting while hanging up right after the UI came up. i tried uninstalling and reinstalling multiple times and it did not work. after uninstalling again i killed off the remains of the instal dirrectory and it still did not fix it. then after reading the crash log file and running a HD access monitoring program i saw it was hanging up while accessing some of the preference files. i then deleted the
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\Mudbox\Mudbox 1.0\settings
folder and it worked again. it looks like i managed to crash it while it was accessing and changing one of the preference files. (if i remeber right i was changing a keyboard shortcut when it crashed) it looks like one of the files got corrupted and mudbox tried to read it and choked on it and crashed.

**note to self** read the forum before you spend 3-4 hours debugging a problem.