Eiseprod opened this issue on Mar 08, 2009 · 4 posts
Eiseprod posted Sun, 08 March 2009 at 8:01 PM
I just bought a new computer solely for my animation work. Basically, I use Poser7 and Blender. When the computer arrived, I started experiencing problem namely:
1) When I render frames of about 500 frames or more, it crashes mid way. When I change it to SREED from OpenGL, it completes the animation but the quality is highly impaired.
I have been on this issue for over a month and finally I'm fed up and I want to return the computer and ask for a refund. When I get my money back, I want to buy another computer.
PLEASE I WANT TO ASK:
These are the specs of the computer that I just purchased
AMD Phenom 9950 Black Edition Quad Core Processor AM2+ (2.6GHz, 4MB Cache, 2000MHZ)
Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium with Service Pack 1, 64-bit - English
MESH Midi-Tower ATX Case + 550W PSU - 190mm(W) x 420mm(H) x 480mm(D)
ASUS M3A , AMD Socket AM2+ Phenom ATX Mainboard
4096MB 800MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM - (2x 2GB)
1TB (1x 1000GB) Serial ATA 2 Hard Drive with 32MB Buffer [upg £ 40.00]
Samsung 22x Dual Layer DVD Writer Super Format +R/-R/RW/RAM
512MB ATI Radeon HD3450 (Direct X10.1, PCI Express 2.0)
7.1 High Definition onboard sound card - for 8 Channel Cinema sound
Free Microsoft® Works® 8.5 + Limited Microsoft Office Trial
Free Cyberlink Video Editing Utility Suite - 7 titles (oem)
BullGuard Internet Security 8.5 - 90 Day Trial - AntiVirus/Firewall/Backup/Spamfilter
10 USB 2.0 ports (6 ports at mid-board, 4 ports at back panel) - ASUS M3A
PCIe Gigabit LAN controller featuring AI NET 2 - ASUS M3A
52-in-1 Multi-format Memory Card Reader (matx)
PLEASE I NEED YOUR HELP URGENTLY. TTHANK YOU
ghonma posted Sun, 08 March 2009 at 9:18 PM
If changing to sreed fixes it then it's probably your card like you suspect as ATI are known to have issues with 3d apps in OpenGL. It shouldn't have any effect on your rendering quality though. Other things to check for when you get problems after long renders is overheating and insufficient power. Renders make your CPU's power consumption go through the roof and they also cause a lot of heat. If your PSU can't supply that, or your system isnt able to deal with the heat, it will often crash.
Anyways as for a new system, a decent mid range one would be an Intel Q6700 + 8GB RAM + 8800GT + whatever.
A decent high end one would be an Intel i7 920 + 12GB RAM + nVIDIA 260GTX + whatever.
Avoid AMD, avoid ATI, avoid Seagate 1TB+ hard drives. Get a good high quality PSU from Corsair or Antec. You will almost certainly want to overclock your CPU to a minimum of 3GHz (i7s can go to 3.6GHz no problem) so get a nice CPU cooler for it. Win7 64 is the OS you want to eventually buy as it's everything that's good about Vista with most of the terrible bits thrown away. Till that goes retail in a few months, just put up with whatever OS you get preinstalled or already have.
vampchild posted Tue, 10 March 2009 at 7:09 AM
I'm using a new PC which I loaded 12GB of Ram and I like
AMD. My system has multi processors. I have found if your
PC is set up like a gaming unit, things tend to run faster and
better. When I bought extra Ram, I bought cards set up for high
speed gaming. At least 4 GB per card. It casts a little more
but it's worth it. Vista is still a pain to work with.
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bagginsbill posted Tue, 10 March 2009 at 6:09 PM
Render quality changes with preview mode? Are you using the preview renderer for your animation? If so, is that on purpose or by accident? Because the preview renderer quality, even with OpenGL mode, is not as high as the software rendering in Firefly, and the Firefly rendering quality is not the least bit affected by what video card you have.
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