3ds max specs help

[oo7wazzy]

i have a problem with 3ds max. i am rendering interior scenes,mainly commercial stores with products, with the scanline renderer, using skylight with light tracer, and i get a message that the program has run out of memory and will have to close.

 

i reserve reflections for glass, floors and mirrors to keep the rendering time down. no. of faces - 487316

 

my machine specs are core 2 duo 2GHZ, 3 g RAM

 

what could the problem be... i want to change to using vray but i dont know if the machine will handle it.

 

thanks

 

warren

[Grohu]

Try diving the scene and then use regular 2d software for compositing.

3gb of ram isn't much to be honest.

Instead of dumping 1K onto Vray maybe upgrade your system for something that will run on 64bit and at least 8gb of ram. Mental Ray is pretty awesome if you know what you're doing and certainly a better system will benefit you more than vray.

 

My .02