Hello. I am having trouble with my system crashing when I am rendering with MR in Maya 2012 (subscription advantage pack). This happens with both batch render and when I try rendering a single frame in Maya. It usually starts rendering just fine and then crashes. Sometimes I can get a few frames rendered and sometimes it crashes before the first frame is done. This crash has only happened when I am rendering, not with Photoshop or any other apps. As far as I know, I am not using any odd elements in my scenes...just mia_materialX and some blinns. I have tried the following:
- BSP2
- Regular BSP with default 10/40 then 15/35 settings
- Turned off auto render threads in batch render settings and specified 3 (I have 4 available)
- Tried rendering smaller size (1k)

System:
Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4Ghz
4GB Ram
Win7 Pro 64 bit
20GB available space on hard drive
Maya 2012 64bit Subscription Advantage Pack

Any suggestions would be much appreciated! Thank you.

u may not have enough ram, try to batch render and close maya to free up ram.

turn bits of your scene off to see what is hammering the memory, or use the diagnose bsp in the render global’s to trouble shoot your scene

Manchester Motion capture, Fully Body and Facial http://www.mocapone.com/

In class the other day, my instructor mentioned that there is a bug in 2012 Maya that will cause a crash when trying to render if you open your scene file by double clicking it.... Just a thought. While 4 GB RAM isn’t a ton, it should be enough to render a frame w/o crashing.

I have tried to render some extensive scenes using Mental Ray on 4 gigs of Ram and they never actually crashed, they would just sit there and think about rendering, I would never even get a image file show up in the images directory. I would suggest deleting parts of your scene until you can render or try moving your objects to a new scene to see if it will render then figure out which object it might be. If that don’t fix it then something other than your models are corrupted, maybe a texture file(sometimes PSD files will crash a render).

are you rendering locally or to a network?

try it locally, it may just be a admin privilege issue on writing to a server? make sure you have full control.
(windows xp let you do anything)

Manchester Motion capture, Fully Body and Facial http://www.mocapone.com/