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Computer Shuts Off When Animating with Denoiser

31415926543141592654 Posts: 975
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

I finally took the plunge and started playing with denoiser ... WOW!  It did great with some stills. Then I tried to use it on an animation and with each attempt the computer entirely shuts off and reboots at the first or second frame. I do not understand why this might be happening. Any ideas? Is denoiser not compatible with animation?

Other Info: when I built the computer, I put in a much larger power supply than was need in hopes of expanding so I doubt this is the issue. I also doubt it is my graphics card as I have an nvidia M6000 with 24 Gb vram available and only 9Gb are being used in this scene [it denoised this same scene as a still image just fine].

Thanks in advance.

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  • Da_green1977_aa156fc426Da_green1977_aa156fc426 Posts: 45

    I use denosier with animation. For a fast render animation i use something like 300 rounds for iray and set denoiser to start at 20. So that can’t be the problem.

    I did have some problems with daz when i only had 16gb ram installed, solved when added 16gb more to match up 11gb vram. You?

    BR// Daniel

  • 31415926543141592654 Posts: 975
    Da_green1977_aa156fc426 said:

    I use denosier with animation.

    Thanks for letting me know it works. Now I must seek the problem out. I currently have 64 GB of memory so that should not be an issue either.

  • TheMysteryIsThePointTheMysteryIsThePoint Posts: 3,024

    It doesn't solve your problem, but Filter/Enhance/Denoise in The Gimp works better than any other Denoiser I have ever tried, including Topaz Labs. With the default settings, the fireflies just disappear like magic and all the detail is left in the image. New technology is not always the best technology :) Just run it in a batch job on all your frames; it's faster, too.

  • 31415926543141592654 Posts: 975
    donalddade said:

     but Filter/Enhance/Denoise in The Gimp works better than any other Denoiser I have ever tried,

    Thanks for the option! I will consider it. I have heard Gimp is fairly powerful for a free program.

  • 31415926543141592654 Posts: 975

    Hmmm ... it seems hit or miss. I now have simple still images that will cause a shut down when denoiser kicks in. It might even shut down if I turn on the Iray viewport while denoiser is on.  In earlier tests, it was not an issue. All other features are working normally - even with highly complex and large scenes.

  • PadonePadone Posts: 3,796
    edited July 2019

    It sounds like a driver issue. If you use a game driver then try a studio driver. BTW I can use the denoiser for animation with no issues here. As a side advice you may want to keep the viewport to iray preview while rendering so the textures only get loaded once.

    Post edited by Padone on
  • kenshaw011267kenshaw011267 Posts: 3,805

    Hard reboots are usually hardware not software related.

    You need to verify the current "health" of the GPU, system RAM and drives in the system. Based on your reported symptoms I'm leaning quite strongly towards the GPU, tbh it sounds like its failing when hot. 

    To test that out get Furmark and stress test the GPU and see what happens.

  • evacynevacyn Posts: 975

    I had similar issues before and it ended up being my PSU failing from the load of my GPU. Even if you have a new PSU or one that's rated higher than the perceived power draw of your components, they can still fail.

    I swapped out everything in my PC trying to troubleshoot it and thought it couldn't be my PSU (a Seasonic Platinum which I bought in the hopes of avoiding the failures found in cheaper brands). However,  after a few weeks I had to RMA it since it failed under load.

  • 31415926543141592654 Posts: 975

    Thank you for the comments everyone. I guess I shall heed advice and start trying to go through the system piece by piece.

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