Please help me about maya mentay

[neuromancer1978]

hi everybody
i got the problem with my maya mental ray
the script follow

mental ray: out of memory
mental ray: out of memory
mental ray: out of memory
mental ray: out of memory
MEM 0.0 fatal 031008: can't allocate 119952168 bytes.
MEM 0.0 fatal 031008: can't allocate 119952168 bytes.

my graphic card is nvidia fx 4000 secne triangle about 2000000

is about the hareware problem or the software setting problem? thankx a lot

As far as I know Mental Ray uses system memory to render frames. So if you have an intense scene and lack the memory to render it.... well Mental Ray will fail. I have stopped using Mental Ray simply because of this. I use WinXP and I have about 640 MG of RAM, and even with simple scenes it crashes...taking Maya with it. I suggest you put at least 1 Gig of Ram if not more because Mental Ray's calculations do take up a good chunk of memory. To give you an idea, Maya itself takes up about 120 Megs of Ram on my system. WinXP takes up a good 200 or so. Plus any programs running. With 640 Mgs.... that leaves little room for a Mental Ray render, at least in MY experience.

[cpan]

i also faced this kind of problems on my Audi TT NURBS project, and the solution was to change the:
1. memory limit setting to a lower value
2. the BSP settings (or even put Large BSP instead of BSP)

yet changing these slowed down the rendering, but at least it's worked :)

[Bonedaddy]

2 million polygons is also kind of pushing it.

[floze]

2 million polygons is also kind of pushing it.
Shouldnt be a major problem though if you follow a few instructions. There already are a few threads about it:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=297115
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=266510
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=278636
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=277552

[jimeyu]

thanks "floze" "yashu" "neuromancer1978"

I think i got some concept to solution this problem

I LOVE YOU

[jimeyu]

thankx a lot
i think i got some concept to solution this problem

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