Anyone think this is a ram problem? (SOLVED)

Richard John S

Here is the situation I get. I can load both one G2 Female and one G2 Male into the scene and it loads up pretty fast when rendering. When I am done rendering the system is back to stable. However, when I load one G3 Female and one G3 male into the scene it take much longer to load and then when it is done rendering my system runs so slow and it takes some time to recover. Does anyone think this is a ram issue? I don't really have much for ram, only 8GB. My video card for rendering is the 4GB GtX 970.

nicstt

Does the problem go away when you close and re-open Daz Studio?

If it does, then might be a memory leak, but not enough info to make anything other then a WAG. :)

When it runs slowly, is it related to grahpical updates such as display, or general system usage?

Check task manager > performance, presuming you are on Windows. What percentage of CPU, RAM and disks are in use?

Edit:

Leaving renders open will keep information loaded on the gfx card; useful when you keep testing as it doesn't have to reload, and so is quicker. But it can affect performance if same card is used for display and rendering.

Richard John S

Even when daz is closed, it still takes a little while to recover before things start running normally. I am using the same card for both display and rendering. The ram goes up to about 7.3GB, so I genrally have around 700ish MB left. I will check the CPU usage.

Richard John S

Update:

Okay, I tried using my onboard video card as the display card while getting the GTX 970 for rendering. The CPU usage was only 1-5% after I shut DAZ down, and the memory was back to about 1.5gb. Unfortunately, I still had the same problem. It took a few minutes before my computer became stable again. One thing I did notice was when the RAM got to about 7.72 Kernal Memory in task manager went up to about 455MB,  but now it is sitting at 262MB after closing DAZ.

Update2:

I have come to the conclusion that it is indeed a ram issue that is causing this. I just did another test using my Sony Mp3 player which qualfies as a readyboost virtual ram device, gave me over 3gb of extra virtual ram. I was able to get even three G3 figures in without any issues. I closed the render, system was stable. It was also pretty stable while it was rendering. I did a massive test with a the three G3 figures and the Stone Bridge scene which sucks up a lot of resources. Unfortuneately, it kept loading and loading, and I ran out of patience. So, I just ended DAZ through task manger, and still my system went back to being 100% stable instantly.

So if you are like me and have limited ram, a readyboost device will come in handy. I would like to add more ram, but my computer's max is 8GB. I would have to buy a whole new motherboard or computer.