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My PC/Daz won't render (again)

N-RArtsN-RArts Posts: 1,520
edited June 2022 in The Commons

I honestly hate having to post this type of thread.

So I have a Windows 10 PC, 1TB SSD, and 16GB RAM

I'm just looking at Daz in Task Manager, and it's showing this: (12) The main component running is "PostgreSQL server" - Which is listed 8 times. There's also the console host, and Windows Command Processor.

With Daz running - but not responding, the CPU is at 65-100% (although I also have Firefox open).

I'll post the tech and specs for those of who know what they're looking at - Log from failed Daz render, Performance Monitor screen shot, and my PC's system infomation.

Thank you for reading this, having patience, and any advice that you can give me.

Oh, there is another thing. When I was poking around the system info, I found something that I don't understand, but it doesn't sound good either. Do I need to worry about it? It's listed in attachments under "uhh.png".If someone could please translate from computer speak, to a level a little higher than "village idiot". Thanks yes

 

(I apologise for any grammar, or spelling mistakes).

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  • kwerkxkwerkx Posts: 105

    So I have a Windows 10 PC, 1TB SSD, and 16GB RAM

    Just a quick look at your system info and resource monitor and I am no expert..

    Thing that stands out to me is both pngs shows 16GB of RAM installed but the sytem is only using 8GB.  If that is new to you, then maybe check to see if the memory isn't seated. That system should be reading all 16GB though.  Hope that helps.

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    Your problem is the 8GB's of RAM marked as "Hardware Reserved", which makes DS see only 8GB's of RAM installed, causing DS to use your SSD for virtual memory.

    I suspect the 'missing' 8GB's is reserved for your integrated GPU

    Fixes; buy more RAM and/or Nvidia RTX GPU.
    Bandage fix; When using DS, close any and all other programs before starting DS

  • prixatprixat Posts: 1,590

    Don't worry about Postgres, that's just how it works. Lot's of little helper programs and Windows just gives them all the same name.

    The TMP/PCR7 message is just saying that the TPM feature is missing or turned off. (If the pc is older than a couple of years then there probably is no TPM.)
    It's the Trusted Platform Module and is used in security stuff. The tragedy is that it means you can't put Windows 11 on that machine. crying 

    There's might be a BIOS setting to reduce the amount of memory the onboard GPU is allocated.

  • N-RArtsN-RArts Posts: 1,520

    Thanks for the replies. I've been burying my head in the sand over this.

    As much as I'd love to get an Nvidia card, I've got to stick with my AMD CPU. 

    Tomorrow, I'll see if the RAM cards have slipped out of their "seats". If that doesn't solve anything, I guess it'll have to go back to the repair shop (or I'll just bury my head in the sand again).

    @prixat: Thank you for explaining that. Neither of my computers are compatible with Windows 11. One is 2013, and the other is 2014.

    I was looking into BIOS. But as I was doing so, my computer had one of it's infamous "random restarts". I dread to think what could've happened if I was actually updating BIOS. 

  • PerttiAPerttiA Posts: 10,024

    N-RArts said:

    As much as I'd love to get an Nvidia card, I've got to stick with my AMD CPU. 

     

    One doesn't rule out the other, you can have your AMD CPU and just add the Nvidia card. 

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,363

    Quote a few of us do that - I have a Ryzen 3900X with nVidia 1660 Super and 2080Ti

  • N-RArtsN-RArts Posts: 1,520
    edited June 2022

     

    PerttiA said:

    One doesn't rule out the other, you can have your AMD CPU and just add the Nvidia card. 

    Richard Haseltine said:

    Quote a few of us do that - I have a Ryzen 3900X with nVidia 1660 Super and 2080Ti

    surprise I didn't know that was possible.

    Is it a "plug n' play" modification, or does certains part of the PC have to be moved/modified in order for it to be seated, and working?  My machine is eight years old, wouldn't it be too old for that sort of addition/modification? (I hope that maskes sense ^^' )

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Good news! The problem has been sorted. The RAM was loose. I hurt my thumbs when I was pressing the boards back into their slots. So I don't get how/why this has happened... Again...

    When I was in the PC, I found a magnet with some small screws attached/attracted to it (attached pic of "offending article"). It's pretty strong. I just hope it hasn't caused any lasting damage to my machine.

    I'm now wishing that I hadn't converted most of my scenes to Filament. They could've actually been rendered in Iray after all :(

    Thanks for all of the replies ^^

     

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  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 5,880
    If you can get more RAM, going up to the machine's limit would help. I have a Win7 machine, and going from 16Gb to 24 Gb RAM has reduced the work the HDD does considerably.
  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,363

    AMD/Intel CPU and AMD/nVidia GPU is plug-and-play, unless perhaps there are BIOS issues but that would probably be a matter of generation not brand. AMD GPUs used to be a separate company, ATi, which merged/was teken over (but kept its own branding for a while, as I recall).

  • N-RArtsN-RArts Posts: 1,520

    richardandtracy said:

    If you can get more RAM, going up to the machine's limit would help. I have a Win7 machine, and going from 16Gb to 24 Gb RAM has reduced the work the HDD does considerably

    I've maxxed out the RAM (8GB up to 16GB). Yet my laptop is only 8GB, and at times performs much better than my 16GB, rendering PC. 

    Richard Haseltine said:

    AMD/Intel CPU and AMD/nVidia GPU is plug-and-play, unless perhaps there are BIOS issues but that would probably be a matter of generation not brand. AMD GPUs used to be a separate company, ATi, which merged/was teken over (but kept its own branding for a while, as I recall).

    Thank you for explaining. 

    BIOS issues would be my main worry. 

    I was looking into external GPUs a couple of years ago, but nothing came of it. I was going to go to my usual computer repair shop to get an opinon from them, but being charged a ridiculous amount of money for what turned out to be a simple fix, has left a bad taste in my mouth.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,513
    edited June 2022

    you magnet reminds me of the missing metal nozzle off my air compressor that got stuck between my only accessible PCiE lane and my graphics card on my Win7 resulting in me no longer being able to use a graphics card in that machine cheeky

    it's basically why I bought my Win10, fortunately my 980Ti survived and is now in that rig

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