I have some trouble using 3D's Max and my RAM!?

Question

when i have some heavy object in scene, and then i wanna render the scene, suddenly pops out of the 3ds window! and every thing unloads from the RAM! i have 4 GB of RAM. when it loades around 1.5 GB for 3dsmax.exe, it suddenly pops out. what can i do? i`ve just tried 9 version and 2008 version on XP and Vista O.S!

Answer 1

The maximum amount of memory (address space) that can be used by an application in 32 bit Windows is 2 GB. This is addressed by the program via a sequential table which can become fragmented as objects are allocated and released. This can cause memory allocation failures when sufficient space is available but fragmented. A good application can handle this by saving and loading memory to/from disk. One solution, if the application is compatible, would be to use 64 Bit Windows, where more of the 4 GB RAM can be used and user address space is much larger (8 GB on my 64-Bit Vista Home Premium).

Answer 2

it sounds you are new to max, models are ranked not only with its perfection the mesh weight also a factor, if you wannabe a good modeler work on reducing the no. of vertices as you can. then only it will be easier to animate ,apply texture & render. try some methods to reduce no. of vertices in max.increasing ram or hdd is not a solution then oneday you cant render even in a apple machine if you modelling like this.



reducing the mesh weight gains ur model weight.

ppl will adore you.

Answer 3

try increasing your virtual memory