vrayspawner problem urgently i need help please

[askdeco]

Hello Guys,

I have 3 Blade Server with Windows Server 2008R2 64bits installed, each server have more than 16cores and 12GB ram.

i installed 3Ds max 2009 with latest service packs and hotfixes + vRay 2009

now if i run 3Ds max it runs normaly,and i can choose vRay as renderer and render normaly, but when i use vraySpawner to make a Distributed rendering, the spawner runs, than opens 3D max for a send, than 3d max crashes and it keeps doing this until i exit vraySpawner.

 

can anyone help me Please

[Matt McDonald]

"the spawner runs, than opens 3D max for a send"

 

Max is launching on the remote machines? As in the gui or the rendered frame window opens? that shouldn't happen with DR. You aren't using both V-ray distributed rendering and net rendering via backburner are you? It sort of sounds like you are possibly specifying that a machine should contribute via DR and then assigning (via backburner) that job to the machine...in which case it would try and distribute to itself (which won't go over well).

[askdeco]

i installed fresh copies of the softwares , i didn't do any DR or ran the backburner for a net render. i just installed everything and when i clicked on the spawner to launch it so i can do DR from other machine to the current one, it loadeds,then try to launch 3D max , 3D max shows in the status bar for a sec, then i get an error from windows, that says 3D max stoped responding, and in the details it sais APPCRASH 3dmax.exe

 

though if i launch 3Dmax without launching the spawner, 3Dmax opens normaly and vray works fine in it if i do a normal render on the local machine ,like if i am using a workstation.

[Thablanch]

firewall blocking spawner?

[askdeco]

i disabled all firewalls and all securities

[cgtiger]

Hi Guys...

 

about vrayspawner crashing.... I know what it is...

 

I had the same problem about it. vray spawner kept crashing out.

I basically contacted chaos group support about it, and they told me it was a known issue with the latest HOT FIXES from autodesk, and that chaos group had wrote a new .XML file that you over write in the root folder of MAX...

this is for 2009 and 2010 32/64...

It is now working.

 

What I am saying is, contact chaos group about that problem, and they will send you a link to log in to your account, and they will post it up there for you.

 

I did and all is well.

hope that helps

[askdeco]

Thank you for your help , can you please post the .XML file somewhere so i can download it? because i tried to send chaos group an email but i had no luck. and here at my country i don't have a reseller for Chaos group products to contact.

[A.Mitov]

If you have DR problems with Vray like servers not rendering, just open the file vraydummy2009.xml with a text editor and find this section

 

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Just change it to look like this:

 

               [color=Red][b]vraydummy2009[/b][/color]
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Edited December 11, 2010 by A.Mitov