3DS MAX Unresponsive

[glorybound]

My MAX is going bonkers. I have a larger scene with DOF, Fog, Forest Pro, and proxies. When I render and come back to check on things, MAX isn't responding and the windows (VFP, Render Setting...) flash on/of randomly. I have to kill MAX. Any clues? I have been dealing with this crap all day.

[jacksc02]

Sounds like a ram issue.
What is the ram useage when you render?

[vlado]

If you look at the task manager CPU usage, is it doing anything? Which Max version?

Best regards,
Vlado

[KiboOst]

Yes same thing here since max2018+VRay 3.6

https://forums.chaosgroup.com/forum/...-3-6-vfb-hangs

[leehumphries]

Same here - Max 2018 and Vray 3.6.03
On a heavy scene Max just becomes so unstable and screen can flash / flicker. I put it down to my machine maxing out

[vlado]

Guys, can you let me figure this out with Bobby? If it turns out to be really the same issue as described in the other thread, I will certainly say so.

Best regards,
Vlado

[glorybound]

I have 128GB of RAM, so I rarely look there for troubleshooting. The project ended up rendering last night, but I am working on another one today of the same size and complexity, so I'll try to reproduce it. I am using MAX 2018 with all the updates and my V-Ray is the latest and I have the latest video driver. I am on WIN10 (Fall Creators). It seems that if I hit render and don't touch the mouse it'll render, however, if I open a browser or zoom in/out in the VFB, it'll start flashing between MAX windows that are open and I'll have to kill MAX.

[glorybound]

Happening again, this time one time after another.

[glorybound]

Third time today. Same thing, cancel bucket render and things wig-out on me.

[glorybound]

Again today. Here is the file, without textures. https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/...d-dfad25bb22ac

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

ok so this happens to me very often when rendering mainly with buckets.
I ve opened the task manager to watch whats happening and the max breaks down to specific windows in task managet from VFB and MAX to material editor, render setup etc.
windows atarts switching between them and you basically cant bloody kill it.

The buckets get stuck and the processor is at 100% or 99.6 and above

You either kill it OR you wait because its actually rendering in the background.

Started happening since the lates incarnation of official vray and windows creative update in summer

Happens mostly on multi processor systems but we had occassions in our studio where it happened on single processor machines too.

Nothing seems to fix this....


I ve tried playing with processors affinity but thats...sorry...FUCKING useless as windows automatically turns it back to where it was.
Environment variable probably hleps but i cant be able to set it up.

Use low priority in vray doenst work for some time

The only thing that seems to hlep is when you set UP max as lowest priority in task manager in windows....havent had this since then

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

its not cause by a specific file...its just your windows fucked up plus something in the vray that doesnt play well with it i guess.....

...this flashing shit actually caused me to nuts last couple of months until last week when i tried the priority in task manager

[kosso_olli]

There is an entire thread for exactly the problem you are describing. It is 9 pages long, with a possible fix on the last pages: https://forums.chaosgroup.com/forum/...-3-6-vfb-hangs