Daz suddenly crashing
defectedsaint
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I've been using Daz 4.14 pro to render out a series of images and everything has been going fine. So far I've rendered 90 images or so using the same settings but now Daz has suddenly started crashing. I did add an additional prop to the scene but Daz crashes even after I deleted the added prop. I literally can't render out the exact same image I rendered last under the exact same settings. I'm not sure what's going on, any help would be appreciated.
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Here's my log file in case it might help figure out what the problem is.
Looking through the log it would appear the nVidia card isn't being used and you have Drop Back to CPU disabled, did you try enabling it and see if it renders?
I wonder if Windows did an update and replace the nVidia driver for your graphics card and it is an old one that Studio doesn't work with.
The driver being used on my RTX 2060 is 460.89.
I just updated my nVidia driver to 460.89 literally like an hour or two ago so it should've been using it. Based on what you've said that's the problem because I always render with the CPU unchedked/Back drop disabled. I just turned them on/checked them to see if that would do anything, it didn't. How do I check what drivers are being used because it should be using the nVidia ones.
If you open up Task Manager and select your graphics card at the bottom of the window it should show the version and date of the driver.
Perhaps you need to drop back to an older version of the driver and see what happens.
I was using 457.something before I updated but this issue started happening before I updated the drivers. This issue is actually what prompted me to update. I think it's as you say and Daz/Windows is using the wrong drivers but I'm not sure how to fix it. I reinstalled the drivers and the issue persists.
Looking at the log have you tried disabling the 2080 and use the 1080 to render? Something else I noticed, you have the display on the 2080, have you tried using the 1080 or even the internal graphics on the mother board for the display?
I've not tried using just the 1080. I've also never thought about the dact that I have my TV, display, plugged into my GPU as being a problem. I'll plug it into the motherboard but I was still rendering things just fine before when the PC decided to start crashing. I'll try again using the 2080 without it having the TV plugged into it.
I ain't asking no questions, I don't need no answers, all I know is after YEARS of rendering with my TV plugged into the GPU I've been enlightened on how wrong I was and now have things working again following your suggestion. For now at least. Hopefully this also speeds up my render times in general, not that they were bad. Thanks friend!
My thinking was that the display will be using VRam from the card which might be enough for the render to run out. By taking the display off the card and putting it on another card will allow all the VRam on the card to be used for rendering. I hope it continues working :)
I'm sure that helps things out. Sadly my happiness was short lived because I'm having the same problem again. The render I was doing was almost done and I decided to look at a video while it finished. Not sure if that affected anything but I can only assume the GPU dropped and Daz crashed. Cool. I figure I got greedy so I'll just try again and not watch a video, or do anything, while it renders. Nope. PC resets when render starts. Exact same settings as before but for whatever reason it didn't work. I guess it's not using or dropping the GPU but I don't really know why. I might need to place a ticket. I attatched another log. I've played with the settings so it's not exactly how I had it when I got it to work but I'm pretty sure the culprit is the GPU dropping...
Make sure the graphic cards haven't come loose as that can happen over time as they heat up and cool down. Have you tried rendering just a plane render with a primitive cube, sphere or something?
After a bit of tinkering I think I have the problem fixed, mostly. Changing HDMI ports has been great and was really all I needed to do. It doesn't speed up renders but my PC does run smoother, and after updating various drivers things are going well. Thanks for the help!
@defectedsaint You're welcome.