I’m on 2.79 and I’ve made my most complex object thus far (which, to be fair, isn’t nearly as complex as a model could be). I was excited to render it out knowing that it would probably take longer than usual. Every time I start the rendering process the computer inadvertently locks up so that I can’t even kill Blender with ctrl+alt+delete. Not even the mouse cursor moves.
I looked at ways to shorten render times and tried to employ those. I set up my scene and started the render and then went to lunch. I came back an hour later to see that nothing had changed. According to Blender it would’ve taken 38 minutes but it seems like it didn’t even get to the actual rendering process because it was still sitting at 0% and locked up. This forces me to do hard shut downs, which make me feel like I’m slowly killing my computer.
My specs are:
Operating System
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit CPU
Intel Core i7 4790 @ 3.60GHz
Haswell 22nm Technology RAM
16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 799MHz Graphics
1023MB NVIDIA Quadro K420 (HP)
Any tips on how to fix this are welcome. Thank you.
At what point should you start rendering with your GPU? The specs above are from my work PC. My home PC has 8 gb of RAM but my graphics card is a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti with 3071MB of memory.
Wow, you’re brilliant. This is a lot of info to absorb. I’ll have to look into each one of these points and do some more learning. Thanks for the render and the cool gif!