Loading textures from HDD rather than RAM?

[johanz]

I am rendering a scene with a lot of big textures and in the end I run out of ram and it doesn't render these textures. Is there a way to do like with mental ray, use textures from hard drive rather than ram?

[jacksc02]

is your bitmap pager turned on in your max preferences?

[johanz]

I tried it on,off. I don't see a difference. If i turn it on, max uses only 100mb of ram but still spews out the error of lack of ram.

[thorstengaetz]

This will probably not help you in the short run, but you should switch to a 64bit OS. That will basically solve your memory problems.