Forum: Vue

Subject: Rendered image size vs. RAM

rainfrey opened this issue on May 04, 2004 ยท 11 posts

rainfrey posted Tue, 04 May 2004 at 11:22 PM

Hi All,

I am trying to render a fairly simple image to a file for offset printing.

Size: 9 inches X 12 inches @ 300 DPI.

  1. Render attempt on Application Computer

Vue says it needs 1GB+ free memory to render this image (machine only has 1 GB RAM total) and cannot proceed.

Whatever happened to virtual memory? Yes it's slow, but isn't my Windows XP Pro cache supposed to handle this? I have a 120 GB data drive with a system managed cache. Plenty of room. Performance monitor confirms that the cache is big enough, so that's not causing the hang.

  1. HyperVue Network Render Attempt

I thought maybe a network render would work by breaking up the image into manageable chunks.

Render Cow on main machine crashes with Visual Basic C++ "abnormal termination" error message.

  1. Single Cow Render Attempt

Tried to render on network box only in case the RCow on main machine was wiggy. I got the same C++ error over there.

Any ideas? Buying more PC 1066 RAMBUS memory for this one illustration is kind of out of the question. And I'm not totally convinced that will solve it anyway.

Any feedback appreciated.

R.


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