Max freezes when I stop a render before it finishes

[Alex_M]

I've been having strange problems with Max recently. I'm not sure if Max is the problem and whether it happens only when rendering with V-ray since I'm not using any other render engine.

Basically, from time to time Max freezes if I cancel a rendering before it finishes and the only way to "unfreeze" Max is to switch to another app/window and then switch back to Max (I do it with ALT+TAB usually). This happens on 2 different PCs.

I'm using Max 2016 with Vray 3.20 on Windows 7 x64 SP1. This problem happened with Vray 3.10 too.

Anyone else having these issues and how can I fix this? Not a huge deal but it's kind of annoying.

[Deflaminis]

On a hunch, what happens if you change your memory type to "static"?

[vlado]

Anyone else having these issues and how can I fix this? Not a huge deal but it's kind of annoying.

Yes, sometimes it happens to me too. I know why that is, and I'll be looking for a way to fix it.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Alex_M]

Great, thanks for the confirmation, Vlado. Looking forward to the fix.