Max crashes with Foam Particles

[Turtle247]

Hi I am in need of help I have a sim thats 160 frames long and I can get it to render the foam particles all the way up to 125 frames and then my max scene crashes. I was wondering if there was a limit on particle count when rendering? Im am trying to render 300 million + foam particles in the scene is that to many? once the render trys to calculate the the foam it crashes instanly. I have a lowes res version of the same sim that rendered fine but this was a final high res sim I was doing. Is there anything I can do? Gris size is 1123x282x1210 cell size.04m cell total cell size is 745,191,040

[georgi.zhekov]

Hey,

Can you tell us what version V-Ray and Phoenix are you using? Is it possible that you run out of RAM?
Even if you run out of memory there should be no crashes.

[Turtle247]

Im useing vray version 3.50.04 and phoenix version 3.10.00 Im pretty sure im not running out of ram I have 128gb of ram to work with and I dont think its getting close to that

[georgi.zhekov]

Is it possible to try with a newer V-Ray version and latest nightly for Phoenix?
We did quite a lot of fixes since the version you are using came out.

[Turtle247]

Unfortunately I can't download the nightlys or get a newer verson of vray at this time what is the current version of vray that is out is it a free upgrade? If so I can talk to my software people about getting it.

[georgi.zhekov]

You can get V-Ray 3.60.04 as a free upgrade - you should be able to log in on the Chaosgroup site and get it from the Download section.

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

However, it's important that you get the latest Phoenix nightly too