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Hello all:

I am doing some renderings for a client that requires huge images (24" x 36" at 300 dpi). The problem is every time I set the render resolution to 10800 x 7200, mxcl crashes shortly after voxelization (it never really fully completes, just freezes at 100% and crashes.) The highest resolution i've been able to render at is 6500 x 4850. I'm working with Maxwell 1.7 on a Power Mac dual G5 2.7 w/ 2gigs ram running OS X 10.4.

I have the render time set to 1200 minutes, SL is 17.

I've also tried on a windows machine running vista w/ 2 gigs, a dual core, etc and the same happens (except in stead of just crashing i get a C++ runtime error.)

Anyway, I suspect a memory shortage is the cause but maybe you can suggest some settings that might help get these renderings going. I appreciate it.

Steve

With 2 Gb of ram, you will not achieve that resolution. I suggest you render as high res as your comp can handle, then enlarge it.

Also, if you have more than 3.8 GB in your PC (approximately), you will only be able to render a bigger image only if you use a 64-bit version of Maxwell running on a 64-bit OS.

In other words, try to render this on a PC or Mac with the most RAM at your site. If you have a PC or Mac with more than 4GB of RAM, make sure it is running either Windows (XP or Vista) 64-bit or Linux 64-bit and a 64-bit version of Maxwell.

Once you are able to render an image and Maxwell doesn't crash, use Bubbaloo's advice.

Good luck.

send it to me, i've got extra render capacity right now.