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Dear fellow fractal explorers,

I was wondering if someone can tell me why Mandelbulber v2 is crashing often on my system (freezes and bsod's). V1 works fine though, with minimal crashes.

My specs are a FX8350, 8gb ddr3 ram and a HD6850 (1gb).

Will a better graphics card and more ram give me a stable system, i wonder.

So if someone has a tip or two they are more them welcome.

Yes, it's the latest version. And i'm running win 7 64 bit. I've just trown 8 gigs of extra ram in my system (1600 mhz, 9-9-9-24) to see if it helps... total of 16 now. I'll post my observations. I must say that any other high demanding programs like games never crash. But, i just recently found out that my ram was not configured properly in my bios...not the right timing and speed.

On "Rendering engine tab" there are "distance estimation method" and "distance estimation function" comboboxes. By default there is selected "Preferred" which automatically selects the best method for actual set of selected fractal formulas. But you can change it to linear or logarithmic with deltaDE. Below that selection there is information which method is actually used during rendering (e.g. if Preferred is selected)

Actually Mandelbulber v2 doesn't use GPU. So even if you have super mega hiper GPU it will not help.
Implementation of GPU support (OpenCL) is on our TODO list, but it will take a lot of time to do it (next year)

Hybrids

Fractal dock - hybrid tab - enable hybrid fractals

tick any extra formula  slots you want to use and choose the fractals or transforms from the drop down menus.

Thats the simple bit, the rest needs a lot of documentation to explain

You can look at this and the following post

http://www.fractalforums.com/index.php?topic=24149.msg94312#msg94312