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Is DS 4.24.0.3 64 bit prone to crashing?

contedesfeescontedesfees Posts: 299
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Four times today while rendering, my PC has simply crashed. It presents a black screen, with an overly excited fan, invariably while rendering a scene in DAZ Studio 4.24.0.3. The same crash has happened previously in days before during the last week. Has any one else a similar problem using the newest DS? Granted, my PC is no youngster, but it works fine otherwise. Thanks to one and all.

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 107,935

    Sounds like a driver or heat isue.

  • contedesfeescontedesfees Posts: 299

    But it happens only in DAZ Studio. I can browse in any of my three browsers all day long, Adobe PhotoShop Elements & Corel PS Pro work splendidly. My ancient MS Office 2007 hums along nicely. And my system crashes after 10 minutes in DAZ Studio, inevitably while rendering. I updated the graphics driver, always do. And heat issues are not particular. I'm stumped.

  • DrunkMonkeyProductionsDrunkMonkeyProductions Posts: 1,152

    contedesfees said:

    But it happens only in DAZ Studio. I can browse in any of my three browsers all day long, Adobe PhotoShop Elements & Corel PS Pro work splendidly. My ancient MS Office 2007 hums along nicely. And my system crashes after 10 minutes in DAZ Studio, inevitably while rendering. I updated the graphics driver, always do. And heat issues are not particular. I'm stumped.

    Not to put too fine a point on it, but those other programs put a negligable load on your GPU, depending on what you're doing.

    When rendering, however, your GPU will be pushed to 100% for extended periods of time, depending on scene.

    It's possible the gpu is overheating, is just failing,  the driver is causing problems, or you have a ram, motherboard, or cpu problem.

    I'd recommend getting a copy of GPU-Z(https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/) or use Nvidia-smi, or Hardware monitor(https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html) to monitor your gpu and other system temps.

    I'd also try running some benchmarking programs, AIda64, firestrike, Cinebench, etc. to see if the problem is system related.

     

    Personally, i haven't had 4.24.03 crash any more than previous versions, and i'm running ~10 year old hardware, Quadro m4000 for primary video, Tesla p40 for rendering in main system, 4x Tesla m40's on my primary render server, and a p106-100 on a secondary server.

     

  • contedesfeescontedesfees Posts: 299
    edited May 27

    Thanks, DrunkMonkeyProductions. I suppose my hardware is 10-years old. Perhaps it's time for an upgrade.

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  • contedesfeescontedesfees Posts: 299

    And, now that I think about it, DAZ3D underlines that the size of GPU determines whether the scene will be rendered on the GPU or the CPU. I now suspect that, given 8 GB of GPU memory, DAZ Studio is defaulting from the GPU to the CPU and that the CPU is failing. Mind, DS now fails to render scenes I made and successfully rendered years ago.

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 12,743

    You can check the log to see whether it used the GPU to render or dropped to CPU.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 107,935

    You cana lso turn off CPU fallback in the Hardware tab of Render Settiings which will, after restarting DS, cause the render to stop if the GPU drops out - if that fixes the crashing it is most likely a CPU issue, if not it's most likely GPU or soem other system element.

  • contedesfeescontedesfees Posts: 299

    Thanks so much, Leana; I do check the log. Me being a noob, I sometimes can't make head or tail of it. But thanks for commenting.

    Thanks again, Richard. I really appreciate the heads-up.

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