Genesis 9 Prudence HD render hangs

plarff

Ive seen someone else mention this but the answers weren't really good or help me solve my issue.
Ive created many scenes with Prudence HD and they rendered fine. Then BAMMMMMM out of the blue scene number 55 and onwards refuses to render. I get the dreaded "Retrieving Geometry" line in the render window and my pc / gpu fans spin up like crazy. They keep doing this until I FORCE quit DAZ. YES i have to force quit as normal, "Cancel" does nothing. AND yes i left it "cancelled" for 20min and DAZ and my fans just keep going.
The frustrating part is the GPU / CPU and memory are still running normal. Nothing is overworked. It's as if the actually rendering is stuck on "Retrieving Geometry" and hasnt even kicked in teh VRAM on the GPU etc...

I even tried fixing the 50 renders I still have to do with a different skin texture on Prudence. This also didnt work. Not even spot rendering works.

So now i opened the last .duf file of the render that worked and did a spot render and it worked. So I assumed ok this time it will work and i then changed camera angles and did some slight pose moves and saved it as a new file. Then I tested this with the different camera angle and a spot render and guess what.................... "Retrieving Geometry" sits there and mocks me. OH by the way leaving it on "retrieving geometry" for 2h45min isnt exacly a solution. 99% of my renders I do, take 40-50min to complete.

So i guess my conclusion is "I am confused" I can't say Genesis 9 Female Prudence isnt working as I did a lot of renders with her in it. In the same location as the renders now giving me issues. Nothing basically changed apart from camera angels and poses.

And this problem is happeing with same files on both my pc's so its not a pc issue. I'm starting to think of dumping Genesis 9 crap and keep using Genesis 8 which I know works.

 

 

plarff

Any thoughts?

felis

I am not sure. Are you doing an image series?

My guess would somehow be a memory issue, but that is a guess.

What does you log say (Help > Troubleshooting > View Log File)?

plarff

felis said:

I am not sure. Are you doing an image series?

My guess would somehow be a memory issue, but that is a guess.

What does you log say (Help > Troubleshooting > View Log File)?

Not an image series. It's stills. Seperate .duf files. As i said number 54 in the set of .duf files works perfect. Number 55 and onwards for teh set of .duf files refuses to render with Prudence HD in it.

If i remove her model it works / renders fine. It's the strangest thing. Also it cant be a memory issue as its happening on both my pc's. Yes both have 64mb / 3600mhz ddr 4 memory but the one has a 4080 rtx and the render pc 4090 rtx. So i don't believe it's that.
Is there a way to approach Emrys and Morris regarding this Prudence model directly?

felis

And there is no changes between scene 54 and 55, in terms of which objects there are?

And what happen if you just make a new scene and add Prudence and render?

plarff

felis said:

And there is no changes between scene 54 and 55, in terms of which objects there are?

And what happen if you just make a new scene and add Prudence and render?

Only camera angles changes between 54/55.
YEs that is my plan tonight. New emtpy scene with a light source and Prudence in it. Ill then shift the camera around and see if it stops rendering. I'll even save a few files to see if that has an effect on rendering..

plarff

Did my tests with only Prudence in the scene and every camera angle i tried worked.
I then with convidence thought let my try one of the problemetic .duf files in this case 55 and it worked after i removed all characters from the scene except Prudence. Then i tried 56 .duf and

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Same irriating f*(*(* "Retrieving Geometry" message and all my pc fans spinning up like crazy.
Log file attached. Or atleast only the part that i think is important.

oh I also saw there's a new Nvidia driver (which i installed) out after the one I did last week which couldve been the issue but sadly no difference.

This is so bad that I did a spot render now. I saw its going same route, fans spinning up and it sits at "Retrieving Geometry " so i cancelled it somehow. Get this the fans now spin randomly as if the cache is holding onto it. I am trying to close the scene and of course it refuses to close. Fans going wild.

I am now at the conclusion this Prudence model is crap. I even redownloaded it and re installed. No luck. I'm never buying ANYTHING from Emrys and Morris crap again. I have to basically now drop a 100 images scene from my game cause of this crap.