Mental Ray 3.6 / BSP2 crashing?

[pthomas1172]

BSP2 crashes like clockwork, any one have this prob?

 

My scenes are all interior with lots all ARCH MAT.

2+ million polys

Vista

running a MACPRO dual boot

intel XEON 3 ghz 2 processors

2 gigs ram

[Paul Twyman]

Hi, I have found the BSP2 pretty good compared to the old but it still crashes when it runs out of memory. With that may polys I recon you could do with a bit more RAM or try breaking your scenes down into bits.

Most the mental ray crashes i've had have been down to memory or a dodgy object. If it's happening in different scenes then it's prob memory.

 

Another thing you could try which I don't think is ideal but I resort to all the time is rendering a final gather map at a smaller resolution, the new interface makes it a bit easier use as well.

 

Hope this helps

[manta]

are you using proxies at all...

[manish_mv]

Better turn off scanline

 

it would increase speed and compatiblity.

 

increase your memory limit too (prone to crash if dont have x64 max and os)

 

try it

[Justin Hunt]

I have noticed scenes that needed BSB2 with Max2009, crash in 2010 but render fine with BSB.

 

Some work has gone into handling large scene and rendering. I have a scene that would only render in 64bit with 2009 but renders fine in 32bit 2010.

 

jhv

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

I have had lots of problems with Max2009, BSP2, heavy scenes, while using DBR. I am still try to test this in 2010. While trying to test, other issues with the scene crept up that I haven't worked through. Hopefully it is solid in 2010.