Vlado, Forgive me for raising something that was discussed in a different post but I figured it had a better chance to catch your eye by making it a separate thread here. Several of us have noticed a relatively considerable increase in ram usage from 1.5 to 2.0 on the same scenes. Can you tell us…

since crossing to vray 2.0, i ve been hitting the 16GB RAM limit very often too

If you have not updated to V-Ray 2.1, it would be best to do that - it fixes one particular issue in that regard. In any case, V-Ray 2.x may take somewhat more RAM than V-Ray 1.5 when using dynamic geometry (proxies, displacement etc). This was done to avoid a particular issue - if you remember, th…

thanks for the explanation Vlado

I think an environment variable would be great. In that way whenever I’m not using a saved irradiance map I’d change to the old way, as memory usage is reaching the limit in a lot of scenes I had no problems before too.

I’m with Visual3D on this. An environment variable would be useful in those borderline cases where we are reaching the limit and things start caching to disk…

+1..i forgot to mention that in my previous post :slight_smile:

Yes, it definitely seem that the price to pay across the board (pretty drastic limits on the size of scenes) for an improvement in a relatively specific situation (faster renders when using saved IM with lots of dynamic geometry) is too high. For me one huge benefit of Vray compared to other rendere…

This is not quite correct; the irradiance map issue is just one instance where the particular underlying problem is apparent; the issue also happened in other situations, and could slow down the rendering significantly even in cases where there is enough available RAM. Best regards, Vlado

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+1..i forgot to mention that in my previous post

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