Max2009+vray rendering slowing my system down to a crawl

[elivnA]

Hello,

I'm having some problems with my vray+max2009. Every time U'm rendering, my system (winxp 64, 4 gigs mem, q6600) becomes almost completely unresponsive in a regular fashion, ie. my mouse won't move, and I can't type. Is anyone else having this problem? I didn't have this with max9 or 2008. It also seems to occur only when vray starts rendering the image itself, not when calculating the LC or IRR.map.

Also, it doesn't matter to which setting I set the priority of the process in task manager. Usually that worked, but now the chuggyness stays the same, even at lowest priority.

[vlado]

This probably means that the rendering is taking up more RAM than you have physically installed in your system. In that case Windows starts swapping to disk, and this drastically degrades the responsiveness of the entire system.

Best regrds,
Vlado

[elivnA]

Yes, i thought of that as well, but when i looked in task manager, it was only taking up 1.9 gigs out of 4...

[Dynedain]

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[Morbid Angel]

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lol....it could be something else 3ds max 2009 related. Im running similar setup except on x32 machine and its fine.

[vlado]

Hm, ok - in that case you could try turning on the "Low priority threads" option in the System rollout of V-Ray AND set the process priority to "Below normal" from the Task manager.

Best regards,
Vlado

[elivnA]

okay, thanks, i'll try that.