Max is crashing when I turn FG on and try to render.

[R.Stewart]

Hello,

 

I've got a model of a house and it renders ok with no FG but when I turn FG on and try to render the render box says "rendering...." and has a full green bar, it sits there doing that with a black rendering window for about 5 minutes and then crashes, It's not a huge scene, the file is only 35 MB and under 500,000 polys.

 

The computer is more than capable, I know because I was working on a big high rise last year and the file was over 150 MB.

 

I'm using max 2012

6 GB RAM

 

Please let me know if you have any clue what is going on I'm sick of crashing my computer

 

Thank you

 

Richard

[alex_rob]

hey regular - I had a problem in the last year that might of been the same - regardless maybe the same troubleshooting I did might help you.

 

My problem was that one unique mesh in my scene was corrupted somehow and would cause the fg render to crash.

 

How I found out was hide each layer and/or object - and un-hid one and rendered, un-hid another and rendered (and repeated) till I found which or what object was the cause (when rendered) and deleted it - worked for me!

[R.Stewart]

Hey thanks for the tip. I did try getting rid of some objects I thought could be troublsome with no luck. I started back at tafe this week and tried it out on computers there and it worked fine. My computer is currently at the mac doctor getting looked at and getting bootcamp set up. I think it was something to do with using parallels because windows can only use half of the resources available. Bootcamp will give window 100% : D Hopefully it works.

 

Cheers mate