Command line rendering causes PC to freeze totally / Maya 2018.4 + VRay 3.6.0.4 + Windows 10

[seandunderdale]

Regarding the threadripper usage, is it weird my windows 10 displays the CPU usage rarely over 50%? Is this expected feedback from windows 10 for hyperthreaded rendering?

[kostadin.botev]

Hello, Windows Task Manager is not really reliable for giving correct utilization data for the CPU and GPU. Any third party software such as CPU-Z or HWINFO32/64 will be better to monitor your utilization. AMD even has a dedicated software for monitoring and tweaking your Ryzen/Threadripper CPU and that should provide the most accurate information considering its from the vendor of the CPU. The application is called AMD Ryzen Master Utility you may take a look at it and see if it will provide more accurate data for the utilization. As far as I remember for the Threadripper CPUs there are profiles in the Ryzen Master Utility for gaming and for content creation that might also help with the utilization of the cores.

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Thanks waaazoo for the tip. Hight temperature is definitely a critical point for the Threadripper, especially for the new 32 core proc. It produce so much heat, that you could heat a whole flat with it.

@Sean: That looks not like it should. Did you set some limitation in the Render Settings?

Thanks Kostadin for the software tip. Seems a good tool to monitor the temperature over a period.