New comp, new max/vray versions, consistant crash

[Sawyer]

I just got a new q6700 with 4 gigs of ram. Its a great upgrade but I have a scene that is constantly crashing. I don't think the ram limit is close. I don't know if this is vray related or max or vista. I am rendering out at 3k and even when I do a region render it crashes. I should say its crashing 3 out of 4 times because I have been able to save the image. No problems with the prepass, I have switched from irr map/lc - irr map/brute force nd no change.

Is there a way I can trouble shoot to know if its a vray issue, OS/comp issue or max issue?

I have merged the scene, disabled the max render window, the odd thing was the last time I rendered and it crashed I had only changed the AA filter from quadratic (which worked) to Catmull which crashed. I have not tested this enough I dont know if there is a relationship or not. I am rendering now to see if I can render with AA filtering off.

I am on vista 64, max 2008 & vray 1.5 sp1

[MoonDoggie]

WindowsXP 64-bit or 32-bit? We've been having crashes with 64-bit xp, and some of my problems have gone away by using 32-bit max 2008 instead of the 64-bit version.

Some other things I might try:
- Changing your Display driver in Max to OpenGL (just to see if it renders/navigates)
- Making sure your video card drivers are up-to-date and stable
- Disabling a secondary monitor if you have one active and try, (we've had problems spanning an image from the MaxFB/VRFB across both monitors)

-Colin

[Sawyer]

I am only having problems with that scene and it seems to be only if I use Catmull in that scene. Again I have not tested it enough to have consistent crash that would make me confident its that filter. I am able to walk away from that scene and I hope I don't have that issue again.

I am hating Vista. For a machine that is only days old I have had a bit of issues. And I guess this is a max 2008 issue but when I go to save an image I often click once over an older version say"draft march10" and change the 10 - 11 so I don't have to retype but even changing the name I get a write over warning. That is minor. I do see a bug in max where sometimes if I select and try to move with the mouse any element in a poly it gets moved in a random way all over the screen I have to use the coords down at the bottom to move it correctly.

This machine is silent though. My last one was so loud. Anyway...

[RErender]

I am hating Vista. For a machine that is only days old I have had a bit of issues. And I guess this is a max 2008 issue but when I go to save an image I often click once over an older version say"draft march10" and change the 10 - 11 so I don't have to retype but even changing the name I get a write over warning. That is minor.

This happens in XP too, well at least XP64 for sure.