20gb of RAM but windows is still swapping !!!!

[glorybound]

yes. 3ds MAX Design 2011

[BBB3]

Yes, Max 2011 and 2010. Problems are worse with 2011. I started a thread and the admins started their own after several similar reports. But it hasn't been updated for several weeks...

[glorybound]

at least they are looking at it. I went to the site, but got lost... which board are the talking about it on?

[BBB3]

http://forum.rendering.ru/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=521

[scheinbarreal]

try Default geometry = "Dynamic" not "Auto"

[Janosik]

well if you got few or much proxies at harddrive why you think machine cant swap ?? it is normall ....

[stevesideas]

I guess thats right...the scene I am rendering is very complex and has a lot of proxies but I thought that memory was loaded and unloaded per bucket to save memory...although Im guessing if you have 8 buckets going at the same time that mayb use a lot more memory. Would turning off hyperthreading help to reduce memory usage ?

[vlado]

Not really, but I do have a fix for this, I think; if you are interested, please email me to vlado@chaosgroup.com

Best regards,
Vlado

[stevesideas]

Sending a message now. Thanks for that. Does this update contain other updates as well ? Just curious

[pixela]

I have vray memory set to 0 after reading a post by Vlado.

Hi Steve,
Which post is this? I have made a search but couldn't find.
Cheers

[pixela]

And one note about the crashes:
Well, I am not sure this is the same problem you are having but I wanted to share my discovery. I used the have MANY crashes with 2011 too and found out that these were caused by new Autodesk's file menu.
I couldn't find a way to disable it but I enabled the "max own file" (the old one) menu and start using it and 99% of crashes are gone.
You can enable the old file menu Customise User Interface/Menus.

[stevesideas]

Thats interesting...I'll give that a go.

For the memory post by Vlado, it was fairly recent...i'll have a look for it.

[stevesideas]

I cannot find the old file menu, is this a UI that I have to load ? cause I dont have it.

UPDATE: Ive managed to do it..thanks.

Im assuming you cannot get rid of the New file icon

[pixela]

No you can't... I couldn't find a way.
But you can put the "default file " menu.

[olly]

UPDATE: Ive managed to do it..thanks.

Hi Steve, how did you manage to achieve this, I can't find it.

Also, how did you get on with Vlado's fix mentioned above?

Cheers,
Olly