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rmckeownrmckeown Posts: 0
edited December 1969 in Daz Studio Discussion

Quality 4 renders crash Daz 4.5 on my machine (i7 12gig vista home premium 64 bit)

It seems the problem is the 3 delight software.

Do I need to install that separately, and from where?

Thanks

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  • wancowwancow Posts: 2,708
    edited December 1969

    wow, lots of 3Delight crashes today... durn... not good!

  • Pixel8tedPixel8ted Posts: 593
    edited March 2013

    rmckeown said:
    Quality 4 renders crash Daz 4.5 on my machine (i7 12gig vista home premium 64 bit)

    It seems the problem is the 3 delight software.

    Do I need to install that separately, and from where?

    Thanks

    That actually makes me feel better. I have an older machine that render crashes a lot as I prefer to render using Quality 4. Currently, I treat every scene like it's going to crash and save it out before doing a render so I don't have to start from scratch. Changing a light setup or the render size will usually let my machine complete a render. It's a solution but not a great one.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,771
    edited December 1969

    You are using the 64 bit version? Do you get a crash report? If you use WIndows Task Manager how much RAM is DS using when it crashes? Do you have progressive rendering turned on in your Advanced render Settings - if so, turn it off as it uses an excessive amount of memory (it's really only useful for previews that you are going to stop early on, checking lighting levels say).

  • rmckeownrmckeown Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    OK, did a few tests...

    Reset machine, loaded a basic character and rendered at quality 4 size 5000 pixels x 5000 pixels.

    Then tried to render the scene achieved at the end of the tutorial fiery genesis.
    Setting 100pixels x 100 pixels, CPU was on average at 35%, ram at 30% rendered ok in 4 minutes

    Finally, tried to render the same scene at 250 x 250 pixels.
    After 3 minutes it have reached over 95%, the cpu usage had dropped to 35% (at times it had been 100%)
    Ram 30%

    At this point it crashed and asked me to submit a bug report, which is attached. (rename to .zip)

    Help please!

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,771
    edited December 1969

    That sounds like the behaviour if Progressive render is on - did you check that?

  • rmckeownrmckeown Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    I uninstalled and loaded the new version available today - Rendering now as sweet as a nut - Yeah

    By the way, rendering with 3delight is now standard with quality 3 AND 4

    thanks for the help folks

  • wancowwancow Posts: 2,708
    edited December 1969

    boy am I glad to hear that! I just completed a render I was absolutely sure would take 8+ hours... 3DL stand alone did it in less than four... I was worried I was gonna start experiencing crashes the way everyone else was...

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