Machine doenst take Complete 1 Gb ram while rendering HELP

[Inxa]

Hi,

I got a 1 Gb ram last Tuesday. I am using it now and also happy that renders are getting pretty fast.

But this is what i am facing

While rendering the Machine takes only 412 or 608 power of the ram and never goes to about 1 gb or any where near to it.

PLEASE do let me know how can you optimize it so that while rendering it takes the complete RAM.

PLEASE HELP.

[travistlo]

raise the max tree depth. There is a limit though, dont raise it too much, or you will go beyond your machines memory, and renderings will get slower.

You can also lower the Face/level Coef. same thing goes for this, too low, and it gets slow.

try different settings see what happens.

[natty]

If it doesnt take your full amount of ram then it doesnt need to ... windows need's around 200meg to run .. then you have all the background stuff ... Be thankfull that its not taking all your ram ... If it does then vray will probably crash !!

[Inxa]

Hi,

Thanks travistlo > how do i do that. In the Task Bar or in Max options.

natty > I agree when i can check that bg stuff and all that i can see the performance. But its say about 80 is for MAX. but when rendering its shows 400 mb. Is it if i start some applications then MAX will take more Memory. NO PLEASE I DONT WANT VRAY TO CRASH.

Thanks,

Regards.
Inxa.

[natty]

be happy that all your memory isnt being used dude ....

[Inxa]

Hi Thanks Natty I am sure you telling the right thing.

Was Being Greedy Better not be one. Thanks.

[natty]

if vray takes all your ram .... what will happen if it needs more ??

[Inxa]

shit cRASh :O. No.

so does it mean that MAX has taken what it could get. So the Task Manager shows about 447080 Free. So was thinking why does it leave this much ram free. AT least it can take abo

That why i asked. But you are also right about it crashing and that when it occupies this where does it get more if it has too.

[natty]

max and vray will just take what they need ... because you have some left is a good thing

[thablanch]

read this

http://www.chaoticdimension.com/foru...pic.php?t=5014

This could prevent a crash, if you are working on big heavy scenes..

[natty]

dont you have to have 3 gig of ram for that switch to take affect ??

[percydaman]

3 gig including virtual memory I believe. so it could be used.

[natty]

ah cool ... didnt realise that .... have to try it..

[percydaman]

lol, I tried it on a couple of computers here at work. Was desperately needed as max has started crashing ALOT now that the scene is using all of the 1.5gigs max will use. Neither computer would work well, one wouldn't boot at all, and the other started having issues, I suspect an incompatibility with network card.

good luck.

[RErender]

Inxa you should listen to travistlo, you WILL see a seed increase. Natty I'm afraid is full of hot air today Just make sure not to set it so it uses more ram than you have or else it will start to page.