johnr1969 opened this issue on Mar 16, 2007 ยท 17 posts
johnr1969 posted Fri, 16 March 2007 at 3:54 PM
Hi I'm having big problems trying to render a scene including 7 poser figures and a water plain at admittedly high resolution - I've tried 800cm x 300cm, 600cm x 300cm and now 500cm x 300cm at 72dpi. I am rendering to disk using a dual 2.5 Ghz PowerPC G5 with 4.5 GB DDR SDRAM. The renders take between 7 - 5 hours (so not necessarily a long render and everything seems OK up until the last moment (at the point where the render reaches100%) when it crashes producing a message saying there is a fatal error and saying Vue Infinite will try to retrieve the file and reopen. When the file reopens there is no "resume Render' option and the render is lost it seems. This is very frustrating and I am getting worried because I have to produce 4 similar renders for work that goes to the printers in a week. Is there anthing I can do to emsure the render works? Is the purge memory function any use? It seems vue infinite will not let me interrupt and save the renders (it says I do not have enough virtual memory to do this). Any advice as usual gratefully received? I'm starting to panic again. I like Vue Infinite but its certainly nerve-wracking