Hi....with a question:)

[Mr Max]

Hey everyone,

I hope you all are having great holidays and may it be a blessed year for you all

This is my first thread in your great forum, and I don't know if that's the right place for newcomers welcome notes! loool

Anyways, thank you for accepting me among your professional family, and I hope to benefit from your experiences to the Max

I had a small question about Max 9 if you could please help me out;

I'm merging couple objects from evermotion to my Max interior scene, but program keeps quiting on me and making errors especially when I switch to smooth view(F3)! sometimes the pc shuts down upon renderings and I loose my files which won't open again!!!

So is it my bad excessive use of materials and objects or is it my Quad core Pc that's messed up??

PLease help me out with this problem and I appologize if I posted in the wrong place:)

Thanx a lot and hope to gains lots of professional friends and experience here!

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

You need to watch your RAM usage. I guess you have 2 gigs of RAM, and it is crashing every time it passes a certain point. Also, textures can eat a lot of RAM, you need to be careful in how you use them.

[Mr Max]

Thnx for the help buddy!

Actually I have 4 GB of ram but the pc is actually using only 2 Rams cos it shuts down when the rendering memory usage exceeds 1.5 GB !! so I guess I need to upgrade to a 64 bit windows.

But could you please give me a hint how I can use my textures wisely cos I'm struggling with my file a lot!

thnx again

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

Do you have the 3gig switch enabled? Even with the 3 gig switch, Max will shut down when 2.3-2.5 gigs are accessed.