Hello and all the best to CGarchitect forums! This is my first post, but these forums have been a great resource nonetheless for some time.
I'm having quite a problem. I have a low-poly scene, essentially a pile of 1400 cubes with the same vray displacement modifier on the whole group. I'm using 1.5 SP2 with Max 2009. The scene renders fine at low resolutions, but crashes immediately after the prepasses finish when I render larger than 1024x768. I'm aiming for 4000 x 3000.
RAM is not the issue, the render eats only 1.5gb of 8 gb before it crashes.
I've tried vray frame buffer rendering to vray raw. I've tried dynamic geometry, etc. These techniques do nothing to help, and I really don't think RAM is the issue.
Has anyone else experienced similar problems in a scene with lower polys but lots of displacement? The disp map is only 256x256 px and i've pared everything down as best I could, but now I'm at a loss.
If anyone has any ideas, I'd really appreciate it.
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