I use the 'apply color' tool for vert lighting all damn day, and at least once a day it likes to crash with a runtime error. Fortunately, I can usually click save before clicking the runtime error prompt, but it's still kind of annoying. I haven't upgraded to 7.1 yet, but my coworker has, and still has the same problem.…
I havn't had that particular problem but when I was using a ATI video card, Maya would frequently crash with runtime errors. Using old drivers or modding the card to a FireGL helped but Maya still never worked quite right.Nvidia Quadros and Geforces seem to work better with Maya.
pyro> Hmm... well, I'm on an nvidia quadro4, not ati, but I'll see if there are new drivers available. thanks. jeffro> it wouldn't seem to do it on one particular object, and after a crash when I'd light the same object again, it'd be fine. I wonder if it's something to do with the history... it's hard to narrow down. But…