I've tried several times to render a scene in the ultra mode, but my render gets to between 25% to 85% and then crashes. I have no other programs running at the time. My computer is 500MHz, 128 MB SDRAM, 20 GB hard drive, so I don't know why it would crash. Anyone else have this problem? I'll wait over two hours and almost have one render, then I get the message to close down my program!

Try to render your picture in ultra in using the BATCH.exe from Vue. Guitta

I tried that also, it didn't work. Thanks anyway, Dave

What operating system are you using - 95, 98, 98 SE, or Windows NT? Generally, Windows NT tends to be more stable whenever you're doing graphics intensive or processor intensive renders. Have you scanned your hard drive for errors - this is a stretch, but if you're cache file is hitting a bad segment or a misallocated file, this could account for your problems. When you say no other programs are running, does this include programs that run in the background, such as virus checkers, etc... Unfortunately, these sorts of problems are difficult to trouble-shoot. Good luck, Brent

Hi Dave, Brent is right about hard drive condition. Clear away all your Win/temp files, do a scandisk and a defrag and try again. If you can, deactivate (unable) all your terminal residence program if possible when doing your rendering. I have Norton Antivirus running while doing my render in Ultra mode and so far things are okay. You may want want to try grouping objects before rendering. I can't say much about RAM size as I started with 256 Meg (now I have 384). Bill