Dead VFB

[glorybound]

This happens periodically, but once is too many. My VRay seems to go on strike and it stops working.

[Alex_M]

Try turning off displacement from Global Switches and disabling any scattered object from rendering. RAM filling up like that points to loading stuff like geometry into memory before starting rendering. I've had this happen on a few occasions and AFAIK it was always bugged geometry with displacement or a botched scattering or Particle Flow operation.

BTW, what's up with the 2 minute startup time of Max? You might want to check that out. I would tear my hair out if I had to wait that long each launch. For reference mine takes just 15-20 sec. I hope you are not running your OS and apps off of an HDD (the old magnetic disks).

[glorybound]

I’ll have to look into how I have my drives setup. I have an SSD and a SATA, but it has been a few years. I think I have my programs and O/S on the SATA and my files and assets on the SSD.

[glorybound]

Yes, turning off displacement solved it, but obviously, that isn't a solution. I was putting on ridge caps and all was going good, up until I put the last one on. Oh yeah, my O/S and applications are on the SSD and my assets are on my SATA HD.

[Morbid Angel]

did your max take nearly 2 minutes to start??? that's ridiculously slow.

[glorybound]

If you notice, it's the V-Ray toolbar that sits waiting to load. I don't know if something before it is holding things up, but that's the last thing that happens before I can do anything. A while ago it was V-Ray waiting for the license, but I thought that was fixed.

[Jiri.Matys]

Check your RAM Bobby. In one scene I have only roof with displacement and it was terrible. After a while I found this one roof take whole RAM.

[Morbid Angel]

well, vray or not I have vray installed just like you. I also have other plugins, corona, redshift, forest pack etc etc. It takes about 30 seconds to load ui until its responsive.

[glorybound]

I don't know... I have Forest Pack Pro, RailClone, Walls&Tiles, PSD Manager and I think that's about it.

[Morbid Angel]

I would suggest win reinstall, and while you are at it replace hdd with this:
https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Produc...B&gclsrc=aw.ds

[glorybound]

Check your RAM Bobby. In one scene I have only roof with displacement and it was terrible. After a while I found this one roof take whole RAM.

I have 128GB of RAM and I don't even touch it, even on the largest of scenes.

[Morbid Angel]

the lag on loading looks like hdd issue to me, is your hdd ssd?

[Muhammed_Hamed]

You should probably benchmark your SSD to make sure it is not the issue
And you should have at least 30 GB or so free on your windows drive.. or else this will slow down many things

[glorybound]

I do monitor my drives. My HD is at 100%, but my SSD is getting old. I found errors on the SSD that Windows can't fix, so I am keeping an eye on it. I'm due for an upgrade, so I am looking at my options. The SSD once said 36 days life remaining, but that has been for months and it has gone up since then, so I am not sure how accurate it is.

[Morbid Angel]

yup, do look into m2 pci drive, but be sure your mobo accepts it.