I have this weird render farm issue. At the beginning of January we upgraded to max 2015 and also got a new render farm from Boxx. We are only using vray version 2 for 2015. On allot files on the render farm are faster than the work stations and that is what we expect. But randomly a certain file…

Well for us it was definitely an issue with multithreading on high core count. Disabling HT fixed that problem back then. However with new machines heavily relying on HT its not really the best solution. Do you have a lot of dynamic geo in your scene like displacement? or vray proxies?

A little out of my budget :slight_smile: Are you liking them?[quote=“EricE, username:EricE”] we bought 10 all together for a rack, think it was about 55,000 US plus tax. [/quote]

No proxies or displacement. Allot of normal and bumps maps. But I did do a test. I removed all of the bump and normal, it did speed up the render but the workstation were still faster by a few minutes

most of the time but right now just trying to work out the bugs.

so much better than the old farm we had

I am sure it’ll pay for itself eventually, but heck, that’s a lot of money.[quote=“EricE, username:EricE”] so much better than the old farm we had [/quote]

they are worth it, its hard to do what we do with out a render farm of some type

I have to get over the extra V-Ray dongle for every machine issue I have. I just went to BOXX, scoped out a render pro box for $3600, but then I remembered that I’ll need another V-Ray license. It’s probably not a big deal, but when you go from 10 nodes with your license to only 1, it’s a hard pill …

bobby, you don’t need to buy full vray licenses just render node licenses which are roughly USD$250 each but cheaper if you bundle it in with a license upgrade

Render Farm extremely slow

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glorybound February 5, 2015, 2:37am 17

I did not know that, that changes things.

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