3D Max 2018 + Vray 3.60.04 freezes while in render

[ahmadridhwan]

Hi all,

 

Ever since I've upgraded my max and vray to these versions, I have been facing such issue numerous times. When I hit on render, regardless the render setting, it will cause Windows to freeze for a good few seconds which will not allow me to do anything literally. Not even moving the mouse.

 

Tried googling for solution and able to find some which is to either set Low Thread Priority in Render Setup. Or in Task Manager, set 3ds Max.exe to either Low Priority or remove a few processor under Set Affinity. However these solutions doesn't really help that much.

 

Are there any other solution to this? Thanks guys.

[TomD_Arch]

Are you sending you scene to a render farm? Does functionality come back after a delay? Does the render then continue on and complete normally?

[ahmadridhwan]

Nope, it was not sent to a render farm. I was rendering locally. It does come back and resume normally after about approximately 20s and then it might happen again after that.

[TomD_Arch]

So the render finishes? You just can't use your computer while it's rendering? Welcome to the our world! Without knowing your computers specs I'd say that's totally normal.

[ahmadridhwan]

Hahaha. Yeah, the render does finish. I only face these freezes issues when I've upgrade the software to Max 18 and Vray 3.6. When I was using the older versions, worst case was using the computer would be laggy, that's all. Not to the extent of freezing the whole system. It just bugs the hell out of me everytime these occurs.