Tachnical Help Needed

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I recently had a custom-built desktop computer made. It has 128 gigs of RAM, an Intel i9 Processor, NVIDIA 12 GIG RTX 3060 Graphics Card, Motherboard is a GIGABYTE Z590 VISION G,750 Watt Power Supply. Windows 10 Professional O/S.C; Drive is 500 gig, a 250 gig SSD  Drive, 2 X 2 Terrabyte, and 1X 1 Terrabyte Hard-Drives. These drives are Internal. There is also connected via a USB Hub 2 x 4 terabytes and a 2 Terrabyte Portable Hardrives.DAZ Studio is the latest build 4.16.0.

My problem is whenever I go to render a 200-300 image frame animation.DAZ Studio crashes anywhere between 5 -16 frames into the render!

Could the problem be that my custom-made computer is not set up properly or maybe all the portable hard drives some 2 some 3 USBs are the problem?

I have also postponed whilst rendering all Windows updates, ADOBE updates, and any others that I think might be causing DAZ Studio to crash!

I have a lesser specs computer with 1 X Terrabyte SSD Hard Drive,64 gigs of RAM, i7 Intel Processor, and a 6 GIG NVIDIA  GE Force GTX 1600 TI Graphics Card that although renders slower never crashes. It goes on rendering for days. Cheers

 

 

 

surreal

A remote possibility.

Try removing half the memory e.g.64Gb

If it still crashes, try swapping the memory modules with those you pulled out e.g.the other 64Gb

A memory module can pass the initail bios memory test yet fail when under high load.

If it still fails when using the other 64Gb then it may not be a faulty memory module (unless you are unluky and have two faulty modules). Be sure to check the spec of the memory modules that you have, make sure you are not running them at their maximum.

You don't mention what cooling you have for your box. A check would be to turn your air-conditioner to maximum for half an hour before and have a fan blowing air into your box then try rending with that. Memory and motherboard components can get very hot very quickly and their temperature are not always monitored very well.

 

stephenschoon

I would say look at the cooling first assuming you've checked for basic issues.

Don't use the CPU for rendering, it doesn't add very much to the rendering process and will generate a lot of heat.

You could try downloading 'OpenHardwareMonitor' or 'HWINFO' to monitor the CPU, GPU and system temperatures. There's also CPUZ and GPUZ but I've never used them.

Hope that helps
Steve.

 

prixat

Have you tried a smaller selection of frames like 0-50, 51-100 etc. Just in case Studio is pre-allocating space or something.

I also made sure my OS drive was 1TB. Windows just gets bigger and bigger.