Black screen from rendering out of a sudden

zong8044

I've been rendering G9 animation for the past two months since I got this new computer (Intel i9-14900KF, 32mb RAM, GTX4080, Win11 64bit) about 5 months ago. The night before yesterday I went to sleep after setting up the render using Manfriday's Render Queue 3.0 like I used to for the past month since I got the product. When I woke up, I was surprised the computer is still running even after I instructed it to shut down the computer after the last render, but the screen had gone black. So I reseted the computer and completed the render with a few frames left before it shut down. After that I start working on a another animation, and when I try to render the animation, the screen went black again. I reseted the computer and retry rendering, but it just kept black screening after just a few frames of render. I tried opening old files which I rendered before for rendering to try to check if it's anything to do with the new animation, but it still went black screen after a few frames. Now, everytime I start rendering whether with Manfriday's Render Queue or Daz bulit-in rendering, the computer just black screen after a few frames and restarting the computer becomes difficult as it sometimes don't reset. I have no idea why this is happening out of a sudden. Pls, any help is appreciated.

Richard Haseltine

Has the driver version been changed, possibly by Windows update? Does the log file

%appdata%/daz 3d/studio4/log.txt

show any issues if you open it (paste that into a file browser and the log should open without needing to restart DS)?

Unfortunately it is possible that this is a hardware issue, you might want to use something like GPU Z to keep an eye on the GPU details as rendering starts, and check by ear that the fans are spinning up as they should.