Serious crashing

[juand731]

My scene is about 600,000 polygons, with about 20 tree vray proxies, and 2 vechile vray proxies, some of the trees are instances, I have the frame buffer on, resolution is set for vray, and vrimg file is on, generate preview is off, im using also a Irradiance map with show calc off and a brute force for secondary, i have my dynamic on also. With all these render settings it stil crashing, the still image is 2000 x 1200, and my computer specs are

 

dual core 2.4GHZ

4GB RAM

Windows Vista 32bit system

 

if anyone has any ideas please explain, thanks.

[kippu]

i am not too sure about this but is your computer using all of the 4 gb memory in a 32 bit vista ...if not have you tried using the 3 gb switch... again i am a xp user and i dont know the vista scenario

[juand731]

I have not tried the vista 3GB switch do u have any idea where I can get the info on how to set it up the proper way?

[amer abidi]

i would have thought that Vista had solved that problem!! alas, i too am an XP /3G user... will keep an eye out for you.

[juand731]

ok so the 3GB switched worked, now to see if i can render out an animation! crossing my fingers! Cant wait till i get my renderboxx also.

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

are your proxies also instances of each other? ...i really think you should be able to render that under 2 gigs.

[birdman67]

Don't forget to ungroup everything...Max likes to use lots of memory with groups!

[psb_architect]

hi everyone.i have also the same problem rendering an exterior.it always crash.my setting are:

*FRAME BUFFER - 1280 X 960

*GLOBAL SWITCHES - DEFAULT LIGHTS OFF

*GI - 1-QMC, 2-LIGHT CACHE

*ENVIRONMENT- ON

* QMC GI - 24

* LIGHT CACHE GI - 800

 

my computer is quad core, 4 gb ram xp home edition

 

thanks everyone

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

try using brute for the secondary GI. light cache uses more RAM. other than that, you didn't include any information regarding the scene.

[kippu]

psb architect... maybe you should use the 3gb switch?

[psb_architect]

*try using brute for the secondary GI. light cache uses more RAM. other than that, you didn't include any information regarding the scene

-what is brute? im so sorry, because im a new user. i use max 8 and vray 1.50 rc2..or can you give me your settings in rendering an exterior?

 

*psb architect... maybe you should use the 3gb switch?

-how is this done?

 

thanks everyone....

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

-what is brute? im so sorry, because im a new user. i use max 8 and vray 1.50 rc2..or can you give me your settings in rendering an exterior?

 

on the secondary GI method, switch the drop down from Light Cache to Brute Force.

 

http://www.spot3d.com/vray/help/150R1/render_params_gi.htm#parameters

[juand731]

Just got the Renderboxx, 32GB of ram 4-4 quads 2.5ghz each, what used to take 14 days for an animation it now took 14 hours!!!