I’m rendering a sequence and according to Windows task manager the the memory usage never exceeds 2,5GB. I have 12 GB RAM installed on a 64-bit OS and still I get the Fatal error message: Out of memory.

When rendering the sequence (distributed rendering with 2 other 32-bit machines as rendernodes) the resource monitor repports for physical memory:
Hardware reserved:  9 MB
In use:  2218 MB
Modified:  198 MB
Standby:  1318 MB
Free:  8546 MB

Does anybody know if there’s anything I have to do to make Max use the free 8,5 GB RAM?

Mr.Blank

Max 2010 / 2011, W7 Ultimate-64
Nvidia Quadro 4000 (perfomance driver)
QuadCore i7-920, 12 GB RAM

Good thinking, I’ll try later to day.

Mr.Blank

Max 2010 / 2011, W7 Ultimate-64
Nvidia Quadro 4000 (perfomance driver)
QuadCore i7-920, 12 GB RAM

Thank you, Samab!

It was the 32-bit render nodes that caused the problems.
Tried rendereing with only 64-bit and no crashes in 6 days!

Mr.Blank

Max 2010 / 2011, W7 Ultimate-64
Nvidia Quadro 4000 (perfomance driver)
QuadCore i7-920, 12 GB RAM