I have Bryce 4.01. I am trying to render a fairly complex scene (almost every object has at least minor reflectivity, several light sources, several imported objects) to disk so I can get a 300dpi image to postprocess for print. The image renders fine on screen at large and small sizes. However, if I render to disk (72 dpi or 300dpi) it always crashes at different points. I have plenty of disk space, spatial optimization set to high, anti-aliasing to normal quality. Am I missing something here or am I going to have to do the old "render at 72 dpi, scale up to 300dpi, and blur a lot" trick?

Do you have a Screensaver installed???? With Bryce 4.01 i was doing render to disk for print and never got a crashes. Pleiades

Nope, no screensaver. I even turned off sleep mode, just to be sure. It's all very strange.

Do you have any anti-virus software installed with real-time proctection???

never had problems with render to disk, no clue :-((

What's the speed of your hard drive? I've encountered problems with low speed drives. Need to shoot for 8 to 10 megs/sec. 7 works ok. 2-3 megs/sec sux.

No anti-virus software. I turned off all background processes. The drive I render to is at least 10 RPM, but the drive bryce is on is slower. It's a pain because you can't resume crashed disk renders, so I changed my resolution to 1600x1200 and rendered to screen so I could resume if it crashed. It's still not the right resolution, but the image rendered fine to screen, so it's not a problem with any of my objects or my scene file.

its really hard to say , why you have those problems. maybe try to render to the disk where bryce lives on, maybe some powersaving options aktivated,i can only guess..

I was just curious if anyone else had had this problem. I don't normally do high res bryce scenes because I render for wallpapers and such and was just curious if anyone had had this problem before. Thanks everyone for your input. =)