Hopefully someone can help me here, I am using DR in max 7 and it works like a dream, the only problem is that only 10 buckets appear when i am trying to use 20 avalible buckets. I am using 4 licensed machines and 1 unlicensed render node.
Is there a reason why i am limited or is this normal??
Look forward to a reply
Chris Jackson
cj@arcad.co.nz
www.arcad.co.nz
DR works in Max 7? Is this via Max’s DR or VRay’s DR?
I have the beta of VRay… do I need to do anything special when I get Max 7 to get DR to work?
It is V-RAy 1.46.xx that fixes DR not Max 7 , DR works in Max 6 now too. Sory Chris I do not have an answer to your question though.
Ok so I am assumming that you have 5 computer all P4 with HT. So 2 procs, each + you are counting the extra HT “virtual” proc as well. Making an effective 4 procs per computer x 5 which will give you 20. Right? It seems to me that the HT may not be working across DR. I would say that this is only a minor loss in performance since the virtual procs will only give you about a 10% to 15% boost. It may be a bug. Or it may be working, but DR is unable to find the “virtual” proc to use. I would report it as a bug.
no trouble with HT here
Thanks for the replies.
I was trying to render it on 4 dual xeon machine, 1 dual amd machine and 1 p4 Ht machine.
Shaneburger- Yes DR works in max 7
Thanks for the replies.
I was trying to render it on 4 dual xeon machine, 1 dual amd machine and 1 p4 Ht machine.
Shaneburger- Yes DR works in max 7
OK so there is your answer… 4 dual xeons is 8 procs (buckets), 1 dual amd is 2 procs (buckets), and one p4 HT (1 proc + HT = 2 buckets)…
you should see 12 buckets. are you sure that you are including your own computer in the DR? that may account for the missing 2 procs.
the xeons are HT enabled so 4 xeons = 16 buckets
Chris Jackson
Are you sure multi-threading is enabled in all the copies of MAX?
Even on a dual xeon machine with hyperthreading enabled if multi-threading is not enabled, you will only see one bucket rendering in vray.
Thats what it sounds like to me.
Tony
Tony, all of the computer have HT enabled in max. I can clearly see the different IP adresses of the buckets that are rendering
Chris Jackson
I’m not talking about hyperthreading.
I’m talking about multi-threading under customize/preferences/rendering in MAX.
It has to checked to enable dual processor support.
Check it on all the machines.
If you can see all the different buckets when rendering, then I don’t understand what the problem is. Each machine is identified by a different IP address, as you say. Is there a particular machine thats not working?
Tony
just checked and all of them are checked to support Multi Threading
Chris Jackson
Just a thought, perhaps vray is not seeing the other liscenses from the other three dual machines and is only allowing the 10 computer limit that goes with a single liscence. That would definetly be a bug!
Sorry I couldn’t help.
Tony
But 5 computers is well below the 10 computer limit, so that shouldn’t matter, and they shouldn’t have to be licensed.
I am thinkg Egz that it is based on the number of buckets not on the ammount of pc’s that are running. I have about 30 processors that i have avalible to me for DR and it would be great to use them (we do a lot of large scale billboards)
Chris Jackson
No, the limit is 10 computers, regardless of how many processors in each. If you have 10 Windows Advanced Servers with 4 CPUs each you can render on all 40 processors with DR.
intersting, I wonder why its not working? Have you had any luck with getting more than 10 buckets rendering?
I wish I had access to more than ten, but I only have eight buckets available here..
There is a limit of 10 simultaneous network connections in windows worskstation licenses though, but I don’t know if that applies in this case.
I am only trying to connect to 4 computers.
I am only trying to connect to 4 computers.
But each bucket will count as a connection, not each computer.