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Memory Crash out of Render Module

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:25 pm
by creasia
I am getting a low memory error and then a crash out of the rendering module.

My scene is quite small. It is of an office cubacle with some furniture and a few accessories. It is taking about ten minutes to compute and then it crashes.

The only thing I can think of is that I am using non AGS glass and multiple lights, exported at 3000x2000 pixels.

This scene was originally exported out of Sketchup, but it works fine in studio.

My machine is a dual Athlon 5200 with 2 Gigs of Ram.

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:37 pm
by Cadhorn
when you say "multiple lights", do you mean that you're using the multilight feature? (multilight is turned on). if so, try rendering with multilight off and see if it crashes.

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:40 pm
by Bubbaloo
With 2 Gb RAM, you will probably not be able to render to that resolution. Lower the resolution and try again.

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 11:33 pm
by creasia
Yes multiple lights with multilight selected.

Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 7:51 am
by kami
without multilight, you should be fine at that resolution.
try out this useful program: http://www.klausbusse.de/mxc/
you can see how much ram the image will need with how many lights.