iRay Render isn't starting rendering

stephangrixti

Hello, I am trying to render a female character using multiple armors and she's sitting on the Dark Horse with the dark armor, and the file size is close to 21mb so it's not that big.... The problem is that in the rendering window the first image isn't loading even after 8 hours, the render box is showing something like '1.3 iRay rend stat: Native CPU code generated in 89.6s... What can I do? I even lowered the SubD of the horse from 3 to 2.

Dim Reaper

It is possible that the scene needs more VRAM than your system has, and so is falling to CPU for rendering - which is a lot slower.

The first thing to try is to save the scene, close Daz Studio, then go to task manager and make sure that Daz Studio has definitely closed completely.  After this, load the scene again and render immediately.

You could download GPU-Z, run it and then click on the Sensors tab before trying to render your scene - you will see how VRAM is being used.  It might also be a good idea to post your system specs - CPU, RAM, GPU so that we can get an idea of if it is low VRAM or something else that is causing the problem.

GPU-Z is good as a quick monitor of your graphics card, but I tend to use MSI Afterburner as a more permanent solution - not to overclock the cards, but because of the detachable monitoring tools.  During a render they let me look at GPU usage, VRAM usage, temperatures, fan usage, RAM usage and CPU usage.