akropol2000

I really hope that someone here can help me out with the problem that I encountered using MentalRay.

I have created a scene (architectural -exterior) it has couple raytrace materials, skylight and a direct light .... nothing complicated .... using only Final Gathering (250) for rendering ...

When I render it at, let say 800x600 it takes about 3-4 mins to render .... no errors ... nothing - everything is totally fine ...

But when I raise it up to 4000x2800 it starts to render and then .... BOOM ... ERROR MESSAGE : MENTAL RAY HAS ENCOUNTERED A FATAL ERROR AND THE APPLICATION WILL NOW SHUTDOWN. tHE ERROR IS: MEM 0.9 031005:CANNOT FREE MEMORY.

and thats it ....

I can't do anything .... It is very frustrating to not being able to do anything about it ....
I also happened to own VIZ 2005 wich is pretty much identical to MAX (the rendering part). So I opened my scene there ... ....same thing ...

I checked in Preferences-> Rendering-> Bitmap Paging ... and I tried to raise all the parameters there ... but I don't think it helped because it crashed just the same way ...

anyway ... I really hope that somebody can help me !!!

PLEASE HELP !!! I'm frustrated to the level where you start to pull your hair out ....

izrut

too much precalculation

U may try these actions as follow:

1.check the free space in your computer and the size of virtual memory
2.try to render same resolution but devide the siene in regions and then adjust them in ..for example photoshop.
3.reduce resolution
4.reduce the quality
5.connect to a farm...
6.buy a better machine...

) if none of these works...take a beer

cheers