3ds max 2014 occasional Crash on Render

[ralphr]

I'm currently having a problem rendering high res fumefx sims. Max has no problems rendering my test sims. But now I have a high res sims where my files are around 2 gigs max will most likely crash after it load the file for rendering.
It usually goes like this I open my scene press render and 9 out of 10 times the render will go through. But if I try to render a second time during the same max session 9 out of 10 times it will crash.
This happens when I try to render in Vray or Scanline. I don't think its my memory cause I have 28gb and I can render other stuff which needs a lot of memory without a problem.

I also tried using a clean scene and a new simulation in a new fumefx grid. As soon as the files get big max is becomming more crash happy.

My System is
CPU Intel Xeon X5680 @3.33ghz
28 GB Ram
GTX580
Using windows 7 3ds max 2014 and fumefx 3.5.2

Help would be appreciated

[sitnisati]

Hello,

Can you please let me know how many voxels are there on the last cache that renders?
Anything else in the scene, like RenderWarps, etc.. ?

Thank you

Kresimir Tkalcec

[ralphr]

Thanks Kresimir for the response.
Sorry do you mean my grid size with how many voxels?
If so the size for the high res sim is: 1019x550x530
Low Res was around : 333x180x173

And no I don't use any render warps.

Cheers,
Ralph

[sitnisati]

Hello,

Sometimes the memory fragmentation can occur, but it seems that you have plenty of computer memory for rendering that grid so it shouldn't matter.
I suggest that you keep the Task Manager opened and keep an eye on the memory allocation and de-allocation.
Without the scene and cache it is hard to tell what might went wrong.

Thank you.

Regards,
Kresimir