Computer specs

[warprat]

Hello,

 

Lately I tried to render an image to 6600 x 4800, an error came out saying "error creating bitmap". I am using 3dsmax 8 and vray 1.5rc3 a 2.4 quad core, 2 gb ram, nvidia 8800 gpu. What sort of specs do I need to be able to render out such large images? or does it have something to do with my maps. Thanks

[AJLynn]

More RAM, 64-bit Windows helps, or at least the /3GB switch (if that makes your video driver fail to load try /USERVA=2800 instead). Turn off the rendered view window. Use instances, Vray proxies and take your computer out for a nice dinner.

[Tommy L]

Or you can render in strips.

[warprat]

Thanks switching of the render view helped a lot! (if that makes your video driver fail to load try /USERVA=2800 instead) what does that mean? I did try win xp pro 64bit 2 months ago but stuff like winamp and pendrives did'nt work. drivers. also, there was a touch of instability now and then. anyhow studio max did work fine even with heavy renders. I am thinking about vista 64 bit.

[SandmanNinja]

I say lose the freeware music player and go with a solid OS. I have WinXp64 on my new machine and it's rock solid.

[warprat]

Sound good man, Is see your Machine specs are like mine. I might give another go at it.

 

thanks

[AJLynn]

If the pen drive didn't work... it's a nonstandard pen drive or you have some other problem. USB mass storage is a class driver and XP64 has it - and XP64 does help quite a lot for this sort of thing.

[warprat]

OK, thanks,

 

right what I done was I installed a new HD, with win xp64bit So now I have 2 O/s's on one pc. So I Installed studiomax9 6x bit with vray 1.5 sp1. rendered a n image at 1500 x 1000, It took 58 minutes. Where as if I rendered the same scene on the 32bit platform it only took 25 minutes. Weird, can anyone tell me why this is happening?