Help Please

[erickdt]

Ergh!!!! So get this: I just recently spent alot of money to get myself a top of the line machine for rendering. I've been mostly working on this thing during my free time at work where I use a machine that is way older and slower. So yesterday I was putting some landscaping into the scene (trees, grass, shrubs etc.) the whole time doing test renders on my work machine making sure that I wasn't going to kill myself with excessive render times... everything worked fine here. So I drive home and open the scene on my home machine and hit render... CRASH. Try it again... CRASH again!!! WTF?

 

Through changing some settings and doing some experiments it's become clear that this is a memory issue most likely caused by the VRay displacement applied to my grass (when I turn it off in the modifier stack it renders fine). I've gotten to the point now where i can get it to render but about half way through the it drops the textures. Again, (it bears repeating) WTF?

 

Here's the specs:

 

Home Machine:

Quad Core Processor @ 2.67Ghz

 

4 gigs of RAM (3.5 available in 32 bit Windows)

 

Windows XP

Work Machine:

2 Intel Xeos @ 2.66Ghz a piece

 

1 gig of RAM

 

Windows 2000

 

Is this a difference between Windows 2000 and Windows XP thing?

 

Someone!!! Please Help!!!

[Juan Altieri]

i think you need the "3gb switch", to make your machine didn't crash when uses more than 1.8 gb of ram memmory (under 32 bits), don't matter if yo have more ram aviable..... so i try this a year ago and works fine (the machine didn't crash at the top of the vray memmory)

[manta]

Haven't had a single memory issue since I started using X64...But I think your problem might be that Win2000 handles memory better, first by not using enormous amounts for itself, XP is probably stealing ram...

[Juan Altieri]

you can see the instructions to make the "3gb switch" active in this adress

 

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e834e9c7-708c-43bf-b877-e14ae443ecbf.aspx

 

but depends on the version of windows 2000 you have if you can do it or not...(i think you need the advanced server)

i made it in windows xp and it works fine...