Memory issues

Mescalino

Ok before i lay down my problem a quick sum up of my hardware:

• i7-4770K CPU
• asroc xtreme 4 board
• Samsung SSD (Here runs Daz on)
• WD HDD
• 16GB DDR3 Ramm 4x4GB (G.Skill Ripjaws 1600)
• Geforce GTX 1070 8GB

This may not be a top of the line pc but it isn't a bad one as well. The max my motherboard supports is 32 GB, i can't add i need to fully replace.

In some renders my pc allways gets to 97-99% of my memory and really cluthers up my pc i can here my harddrive going in overdrive to work the swapfile. In a few ocassions daz was even closed down to memory issues.

I use the following tool: https://www.daz3d.com/iray-memory-assistant

What i have noticed is that hair often is the issue (sometimes skin shaders). I am working on a scene with 6-7 people in it and im afgraid to hit the render button. :)

Is there a way to optimize this or should i just cough up 250 buck and get 32GB... I really dont want to invest this money in Ramm but i really want my renders/daz3d to run a bit smoother on the larger scenes.

Once it finaly starts rendering the render times arent that bad. But it would be nice that i could some small task when waiting for a render in stead of closing every background program to freee up some excessive memory.

I am also going to look up more into batch rendering so i can do renders while i sleep.

Any advise or insights...?

Alowe49

Less is faster, if you are using iray shaders, try setting the Base Mixing on skins/props/clothes to Weighted. Mirrors and reflective surfaces eat-up memory. The basic camera headlamp or a simple mesh light will be much quicker to render than a scene with mixed or several light sources. In Render Settings/Advanced - uncheck the CPU in Photoreal Devices to free processing power for other tasks at a slight cost to render times. Since Windows 98se I have been fixing the Virtual Memory at 2 to 4 x Ram size (now at 64Mb) .You think you have problems - I have a similar but older version of yours - i7-2700K,ASRock Z77 Xtreme4 board, 16Gb memory, no SSD, Geforce GTX 950Ti 2Gb and 3x 1Tb Hd's.