Baboon by AM freezes my system at less than 16 seconds even with a partial render of the model

Graygecko_63b06fd4c9

I have had issues with slow AM  renders before but the Baboon won't even start to render. I am on a windows machine with a Nvidia 3060 and 16 gig of ram. Nothing else in the scene. Any help?

richardandtracy

Have you used task manager to see what is going on as the render button is pressed?

With 16Gb RAM, it's highly probable your RAM is full and the computer is using page files on the HDD. This is both risky (DS can crash) and mind numbingly slow. Generally your RAM needs to be 3x the VRAM, so on a 3060 you really need 48 gig RAM to get the best out of your card. I have a 12Gig RTX 3060 in a 64Gb RAM machine now. So far I've not had ram issues. I had RAM issues with my 16Gb Win7 machine and a 6Gb GTX1060. When I upped the RAM to 24Gb I ran into fewer unexplained slow downs.

Regards,

Richard

Graygecko_63b06fd4c9

Thanks! That seems to be the problem. No matter how small I make the render screen it still eats up memory until it freezes. Guess this model will have to wait for a new computer! With no user comment sections on the models it would be nice of DAZ to put warnings on some of these memory hogs! I'd call this a known issue.

DrunkMonkeyProductions

It's the hair.

Just doing a quick test, at 1kx1k, default render settings and nothing else in the scene, i hit 33GB of system ram used by studio at render, and 11.9GB of vram between my primary(~400MB) and render gpu(11.59GB).

 

 

 

 

Graygecko_63b06fd4c9

I tried him without the fur too. He works great if you need a naked baboon. Highly recommended...a little silly looking but....someone might need one! The jungle after a nuclear bomb maybe or test monkey at a cancer clinic?? HP says my system can upgrade to 64 but I have doubts about the power suppply going there. I might up it to 32 for better performance and skip the monkey business.

 

DrunkMonkeyProductions

Graygecko_63b06fd4c9 said:

I tried him without the fur too. He works great if you need a naked baboon. Highly recommended...a little silly looking but....someone might need one! The jungle after a nuclear bomb maybe or test monkey at a cancer clinic?? HP says my system can upgrade to 64 but I have doubts about the power suppply going there. I might up it to 32 for better performance and skip the monkey business.

 

The power increase from more ram is negligable.

Maybe 20 watts, depending on various factors.

As long as your system isn't using a 250 watt psu, and you don't have a bunch of other stuff installed, you should be fine.

 

Graygecko_63b06fd4c9

Thanks! I've got 500W and this is the first upgrade so that should do it. I want to put off buying a new system as I feel they will be coming out with more advanced chips to deal with AI. 

richardandtracy

At least the source of the problem is identified, even though the solution is a bit more difficult to deal with. Regards, Richard.

Graygecko_63b06fd4c9

richardandtracy said:

At least the source of the problem is identified, even though the solution is a bit more difficult to deal with. Regards, Richard.

 Thanks. I have a couple of AM's models that do work. Maybe he or she will consider doing an update. Even with a ton of memory this really limits the models use. Certainly not a candidate for animation or combining with an HD evolutionary cousin! Adding a lower res model to the mix would be nice. I am painter who uses DAZ to create mockups for my art. Poses and Lighting ae more important than detail as I  make consideratble changes to the original scene and often don't completely render a scene. All I need is an artistically lit posed monkey. Maybe a geoshell that looks like fur?