Another newbie question about ds4

Choppski

I downloaded and installed ds4 for 32 bit. I have a 64 bit machine. I opted for the 32 simply because my ds3 was 32 bit. If I am seeing a crash for memory issues, should I opt for 64 bit? It would seem obvious but what's wierd is that the memory usage for the scenes where there can be a problem is max 1500 MB. I used to never have a problem until the rendering got up near 3000 mb. Even in ds4 I have had some crashes. I did a windows diagnostics on memory and it said everything is fine.

sriesch

Although I don't know about your specific crash scenario, I would definitely encourage you to use the 64-bit version of DS to reduce overall crashes.  (You might want to research any plugins you have, I can't remember if there were any that didn't work in the 64-bit version or not, but something's kicking around in the back of my mind about that.)

Richard Haseltine

Yes. Also, only 64 bit has Iray (though only 32 bit has LipSync - the 64 bit version will play animations generated by LipSync in the 32 bit version - so you may need both installed at some point).

Choppski

Can I have both installed, 32 and 64?

My computer has an intel core I7 with 2.4ghz and 8mb of RAM.and I know I have an Nvidia video card (geoforce 920M) and an INtel card.

I keep wondering if the issue is my computer because even ds4 is giving crashing when I try to render, saying there is a memory issue. With DS3 it just suddenly wouldn't allow more than a few characters in a scene. If I had 2 I was ok (but now not even that), and then if I tried to move them the whole thing would freeze up (not responding). With DS4 it seems to work better, and thankfully I can now load my ds3 scenes, but if I keep getting render crashes, I am not sure what the point is. Or the problem.

Richard Haseltine

Yes, you can have both versions of DS installed. They share settings, including layout, so where there are differences (LipSync/Iray available or not) you may need to do a quick adjustment when moving between them.