How to speed up rendering? - Hardware quesion

[jarrodw]

Hello,
I'm using V-Ray as my primary render engine, working through settings and tests, and am finding that it's slow.

I'm running a 3.4Ghz i7-4930K 6 core processor and a 770 GTX graphics card. 32Gb of ram.

I also just upgraded to the new Windows 10, had some crashing issues, so downgraded, has anyone else seen issues with the Windows 10 upgrade?

Where should I go from here?

Any thoughts are helpful.

Thanks,
Jarrod

[joconnell]

Bit of a "how long is a piece of string" question - are you doing vfx scenes, product shots, arch vis things? Loads of textures of simple cartoon stuff? Interiors or exteriors, GI on or off? Stills or animation?

[jarrodw]

Totally fair, my apologies.

The problem is rendering beer from Phoenix FD. Light scene, just a glass some geometry and an emitter. Water is pretty fast. So maybe it?s the foam and bubbles?

besides that, I?d like to speed my renders and test higher settings for cleaner renders with less noise.

hope this helps.

Thank you for the help!

jarrod

[joconnell]

Ah yes - I think there's a bit of a hit with GI and scattering in the bubbles - Svetlin on the phoenix forum is probably going to be far more use to you than anyone on the vray maya forum!

[jarrodw]

Thank you joconnell