Vray hangs at 100% render


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Hey guys,

So I’m having a weird problem, maybe someone knows whats up. When I render, and the render reaches 100%, maya/vray hangs.

This is sort of normal, it usually happens for about a minute or two.

Right now though it is hanging for 20-30 minutes at the end of every single render, even small renders or partial renders.

In the task manager, I can see that maya is using 24GB of my ram. The usage slowly drops from 24GB to 5GB over that 20/30 minute period.

Once the usage hits some magical number close to 5GB, the hang ends, the render finishes, and I can use Maya again.

It’s driving me nuts. Even small test renders are doing this. Anyone have a solution?


A couple of things not sure if it matters:

Its not a super complicated scene but I did get a dynamic memory error early on, so I upped the available limit to 24GB, my system has 32.

I am layering displacement with a layered shader, which is the only thing new in the scene. I had to lower the edge width for the displacement to .2, so that’s why there is so much RAM usage.

I have tried upping the tree build quality and it doesn’t change anything.

I’m just rendering a single frame, its a still.


Suggestions are super appreciated, because I can’t continue with these 20 minute hangs per test render.