Ok. This is a concept of a futuristic Ellis Island. All I have done is the modeling on a patrol ship. The texturing has yet to be finished.
The problem is, the thing won’t render. It will crash, but not render. Since I have two dual core processors and 1 gig of memory. What the heck is going on? :eek:
Does it fail to start rendering or what? Which version?
Do you have subsurf on, and if so, what level?
I remember reading a post somewhere else where someone complained that blender refused to render (on a machine that seemed quite decent)
Aligorith
Current version.
Does not start rendering, refuses to cancel, crashes and spawns a process that won’t go away that takes up the full 2 gigs.
Subsurf
20 objects have two render levels and two view levels Another two objects have subserf 2 levels, but with no modfiers.
Maybe that’s the problem.
But! Keep in mind that in the early stages, it still wouldn’t render.
But
I have a similar issue with my dual-core PC (2.5 Gigs of RAM). I don’t know what causes it, but when I go to render stuff sometimes Blender will randomly crash.
More often though it will crash after I render something when I go to save the image.
I thought it might have something to do with DEP (Data Execution Prevention) on SP2 which I can’t turn off <img>, but it could be something else -I don’t know.
I understand your frustration at least.
do you have the threads option enabled? I’ve never had this problem on any of my computers, though, i dont have a dual core system, i do have a couple of dual processor systems, and I’ve taxed those to their limits and never had any crashes. though waiting 2 days for a render wasnt excactly awesome. You may want to try disabling the threads option if its enabled, dual core might not have the full featureset a true dual core box might have. or you might want to enable it. I assume you use windows, so it could be a windows problem too. I would suggest trying blender in knoppix and see if you get the same problem.
Erm, I don’t know if this will work, but try running Blender, press CTL+ALT+DEL to get your processes, right-click on the blender.exe process, there should be an option for what core it will run on. Just have it use one core, and see what happens.
I don’t know if this will work, I don’t have a dual-core computer. =(
Ok. It finally rendered.
It is called the Dragonfly X-3B patrol
I use RHEL. Not windows.
RHEL? wow, you must have shelled out a pretty penny for that, nice. Anyway, It could be your graphics driver then, I’ve had some problems with the GLX extensions with the stock nv drivers, same with the fireglx drivers for ati. The proprietary drivers speed things up, and eliminate some wierd issues. At least for me, it did. I use FC so its pretty close to RHEL, though not quite as ‘stable’. Sorry for the assumption, most people here dont use linux.
nice modelling on the rock btw, looks like slate. very nice.
Nope. It was free. There is a particular convention of RHEL that is free.
Anyway, I fixed the problem. One object had a whopping six render levels.
Gee, the way things seem to be going these days, it looks like there won’t be any “future Ellis Island.” :rolleyes: Nothing but a great big wall to the south and another great big wall to the north, and nobody is allowed inside.
hmm… to my knowledge, the only version of redhat that was free these days was Fedora. I could be wrong, and correct me if i am, but I thought what you payed for in RHEL was the support. which is pricey, but good for buisinesses, who want such things,whereas Fedora is designed for more of the end user. I’m just curious as to where you get free(legally) RHEL. I also thought pirated versions couldnt update, as up2date uses RHN servers which are only usable if you have an RHN account, which you have to pretty much have to buy RHEL to get.