Seeing Memory Consumption *Before* Rendering?

Paper Tiger

All,

 

Was just wondering if there was a utility, app, script or anything like that out there that would advise you of the memory consumption of a scene (textures, lights, geometry ... all of it) BEFORE you hit the render button? It seems my system hard locks if i go over a total memory consumption of about 5GB. I already use the scene optimizer utility to get textures as low as i can get them without making the renders hideous, but i was just hoping there was something out there that would allow me to see total memory consumption of a scene before i actually engage my system's resources to do it.

 

Thanks :)

Paper Tiger

Scratch that. Found the IRAY Memory assistant. I understand it's not 100% accurate, but anything is better than "click and hope i don't have to perform a hard shutdown to get my PC back"