2013 dr not working.. what am i forgetting..?

[simmsimaging]

I am having all kinds of trouble since switching to 2013 as well - although I also upgraded all my machines to Windows 8, but 2012 was running just fine under w8.

All firewalls are disabled and all nodes have port 30304 and port 20204 opened for Vray. The spawner is running with admin privileges on all machines, as is Max 2013 itself. I can render DR renders from my workstation *most of the time*, but occasionally I get nodes (different ones) that refuse the connection. Sometimes this corrects itself on the very next render, sometimes not. Sometimes restarting Max or the spawners seems to help, sometimes not. Running a DR render from one of my other machines will not work at all (all nodes fail) and from my laptop it works sometimes for some nodes, but not yet for all.

Running a BB render will not work at all with DR.

All were running fine with 2012.

Also: my laptop cannot seem to run the spawner. It just keeps crashing and restarting Max. The vrayspawner log file says this:

0: [2013/Jan/4|00:38:02] ========================== Starting new session ==========================
1: [2013/Jan/4|00:38:02] Got this module name: C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max Design 2013\vrayspawner2013.exe
2: [2013/Jan/4|00:38:02] Got this INI file name: C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max Design 2013\VRaySpawner.ini
3: [2013/Jan/4|00:38:02] *** ALERT! Could not open INI file: "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max Design 2013\VRaySpawner.ini". Using defaults.
4: [2013/Jan/4|00:38:02] --
5: [2013/Jan/4|00:38:02] Dumping current settings...
6: [2013/Jan/4|00:38:02] VRaySpawner temp dir: "C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp"
7: [2013/Jan/4|00:38:02] Application name (MAX/VIZ): "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max Design 2013\3dsmax.exe"
8: [2013/Jan/4|00:38:02] --
9: [2013/Jan/4|00:38:02] Process id is 4616 (0x120
10: [2013/Jan/4|00:38:02] Executing ""C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max Design 2013\3dsmax.exe" -server C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\vraydummy2013.max "
11: [2013/Jan/4|00:38:22] Process id is 4616 (0x120
12: [2013/Jan/4|00:38:22] Executing ""C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max Design 2013\3dsmax.exe" -server C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\vraydummy2013.max "
13: [2013/Jan/4|00:38:42] Process id is 4616 (0x120
14: [2013/Jan/4|00:38:42] Executing ""C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max Design 2013\3dsmax.exe" -server C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\vraydummy2013.max "


Max 2013 runs just fine on this computer, it just will not run as a spawner.

Anyway, it's been days of messing around and still no consistent DR or BB with DR rendering for me.

Anything else to try?

[vlado]

For the restarting spawner: did you run a regular backburner render on the slaves first?

For the rest of the issues I'm afraid I don't have any clue; V-Ray DR code is identical in all 3ds Max versions, so I'm not sure what exactly causes these differences in 3ds Max 2013.

Best regards,
Vlado

[svetlozar.draganov]

Hello simmsimaging

Would it be possible to do a remote session on your machine ?
If the answer is positive please write to vray@chaosgroup.com to arrange online meeting.
Please add "svetlozar - remote session" into the subject and place a link to this thread.

Thank you in advance.

[simmsimaging]

I am double checking the back burner stuff today, so if that doesn't resolve things then I will email Vlado about the remote session for sure. Thanks guys.

[simmsimaging]

I re-ran the Backburner server renders on all the nodes and actually re-installed Backburner on the laptop that was having the spawner crashes. I did not realize it, but there were still BB 2008 components mixed with the 2013 ones so something was amiss with my installation of 2013 on that machine. Anyway, reinstalling seems to have fixed things. Right now it's all working okay again. Thanks Vlado.

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[vlado]

Very well then

Best regards,
Vlado