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Hi Maxwell team,

I have a bug to report.

When I start a render most of the time it crashes before it is finished
When I only use defuse materials it seems that it is more likely to finish the render.
But when I use plastic material most of the time it will not go higher than sample level 6/7

Here is all info about my settings en pc configuration:
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OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name ****
System Manufacturer MICRO-STAR INC.
System Model MS-6788
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel ~3042 Mhz
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel ~3042 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. V6.1 on 07.00T, 1/5/2005
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume3
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"
User Name ****\****
Time Zone W. Europe Daylight Time
Total Physical Memory 1,536.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 274.55 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 2.86 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
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Render info:

Geometry:

Num Meshes: 136
Num Triangles: 4550473
Num Vertexes: 2450452
Num Normals: 1748254

Materials:

Num Emitters: 0
Num Diffuse: 137
Num Metals: 0
Num Plastics: 0
Num Dielectrics: 0

Bitmaps:

Num Bitmaps: 0



MAXWELL Engine version 1_2_2a_beta
Licenced To TRC Development
>> Low Priority Enabled.

Reading MXS File:
F:\My Documents\Maxwell\eagle 1999\closeup-e.mxs

MXS file read successfully

Loading Bitmaps...
>> Checking Data...
>> Preprocessing Data...

== Render settings ==

resolution: 1910 x 1036
maximum desired time: 3h 20m 0s
threads: 2
target sampling level: 25.00

>> Starting Render

>> Start Voxelization...
>> End Voxelization...


[0h 4m 55s] of [3h 20m 0s] , current sampling level : 0.00

[0h 5m 46s] of [3h 20m 0s] , current sampling level : 0.00

[0h 6m 35s] of [3h 20m 0s] , current sampling level : 0.00

[0h 7m 36s] of [3h 20m 0s] , current sampling level : 0.00

[0h 8m 57s] of [3h 20m 0s] , current sampling level : 1.70

[0h 11m 7s] of [3h 20m 0s] , current sampling level : 3.45

[0h 14m 29s] of [3h 20m 0s] , current sampling level : 5.18

[0h 20m 34s] of [3h 20m 0s] , current sampling level : 6.90

[0h 30m 38s] of [3h 20m 0s] , current sampling level : 8.51

[0h 40m 47s] of [3h 20m 0s] , current sampling level : 9.48
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Maxwell Log info:

MAXWELL 1_2_2a_beta ( Engine core: rs1c )
[ Physically and Unbiased Based Rendering ]


## Scene Information ##

136 meshes ( 4550473 triangles )

## Render Information ##

*settings:

resolution: 839 x 557

*render time: 0 hours 26 minutes 3 seconds

target sampling level: 25
sampling level reached: 12

MaxwellBench 1.0: 42.790563
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I hope this is all info you guys need

Thanks, Nico.

Can you please submit MXS file with this crash.
Thank you

Due to the fact that it has 4550473 Triangles the file is 200MB I will put the file on my server and send you a PM with the download link tomorrow.

Thanks Tom for looking in to this!

Greetings, Nico.

NicoR44 wrote:Due to the fact that it has 4550473 Triangles the file is 200MB I will put the file on my server and send you a PM with the download link tomorrow.

Thanks Tom for looking in to this!

Greetings, Nico.

Nico,

Is it 200Mb even after you zip it ?
Also, if you have PowerArchiver then try the 7zip format; it usually gives the highest compression possible.

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Hi Thomas,

You’re right, after zipping it is now 56MB.

Tom,
I have sent you a PM with the download link.
In the zip: the MXS file, a screen shot of the crash and the result of the render at SL 13.33

Thanks, Nico.

Hi Tom,

Did you get the file via my link?

Greetings, Nico.

Hi Nico,

I rendered your file in full success on 2 different computers.
No problems and crashes occured here while and after rendering.
I'll send the rendered output here and (to you with email) soon.
I think it may be about your hardware/OS configuration.

Best Regards,
Tom

p.s: btw/ your scene is great

Thanks Tom for looking in to this.

It’s a weird situation especially because it only occurs when using plastic for material.
Maybe increasing my virtual memory will do the trick?
Well I’ll try some things with my pc settings.

I’m very glad that you like my scene

Keep up the good work and support!

See you in the forum, Nico.

Your problem is nothing with plastics etc but your computer unfortunately.



MAXWELL 1_2_2a_beta ( Engine core: rs1c )
[ Physically and Unbiased Based Rendering ]


## Scene Information ##

136 meshes ( 4550473 triangles )

## Render Information ##

*settings:

resolution: 1314 x 966

*render time: 3 hours 20 minutes 12 seconds

target sampling level: 25
sampling level reached: 15

MaxwellBench 1.0: 50.822239