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Hey Guys.

Maybe this issue has been discussed, but couldn't find the solution in previous posts.

I encounter an issue during rendering.
I set a render que fo 8 files. And quite often rendering crashes after rendering out some of them.

The message is:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ngjam8x20e4h237/bug-info.jpg

Which says, that C4D crashed because of plugin.
And says, that you can find informations in bug report file which is here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rb1hxdq96zp5x27/BugReport.txt

After clicking OK - C4D turns off.

The computer is:
inte i5
8GB RAM
GTX-570

I'm normally rendering 10 sets of these 8 files so I'm quite pissed off, when I get this message every 3 render ques

Can anyone help?

it's in my scope now. need some testing for render queue, and I can ask some details later

Cool, I am looking forward.

I thought the "bug-report" file could give an answear (obviously I don't understand it at all )

Although it's not the only problem with C4D.

Sometimes a crash happens in a different way. It renders, and in some moment I hear the GPU slowing down. I look at C4D and my cursor is in "busy mode". When I click anywhere in C4D window I get the Windows (W7 x64) message: "Program stopped it will be turned off".
I never encountered it when rendering with C4D renderer.

And one more thing. It doesn't happen only with que rendering.
I had same issues while rendering in the outer window too.

Best Regards Aoktar
looking forward

need for info about specs and scenes. What is the plugin, c4d versions and os?
plugin 0.72b and newers must be crash free about %99. Did you activate render priority for increasing gui responsivity? If you don't this for viewport gpu, on some situations, gpus will use all process power and don't give any chance for refreshing the viewport

EDIT:
i have done a bunch of tests for Render Queue. I have used 4 scenes on queue.
Any crash or error is not seen on my side.

Octane: 0.72b SDK 1.2
C4D: Studio R13 ver. 13.016
OS: W7 x64
set up: intel i5, 8GB RAM, GTX-570

I've set Render Priority to "HIGH" now. Earlier it was LOW.

Scenes are: a shoe model with HDR lighting, and 3 lamps over it.
No sofistication and complication.

slepy8 wrote:Octane: 0.72b SDK 1.2
C4D: Studio R13 ver. 13.016
OS: W7 x64
set up: intel i5, 8GB RAM, GTX-570

I've set Render Priority to "HIGH" now. Earlier it was LOW.

Scenes are: a shoe model with HDR lighting, and 3 lamps over it.
No sofistication and complication.

"High" is not a good idea. Best is "lower" for gui responsivity.
Do you have on most scenes this crash or on specific one? Sorry but Debug.txt not giving exact point. If you can detect some reproductable case, this will give me more idea. Also i'll check again for queue rendering

I'll make some tests today or tomorrow, and give you a hint.

OK, made some tests.

No matter: low-poly, high poly. Big textures, no textures. Big scene small scene.

It just happens.
Mostly during the first queue. After about 5-6 scenes. Sometimes at the seccond one.
Mostly, when the crash happens I render 4 sets of 8 renders and there are no problems, and than it happens again.

There is nothing common in these crashes.

I made a scene with a sphere and two boxes on side, one light, one glossy material. Othe Diffuse. 3 scenes ok, than crash. After that 16 renders ok.

No rule at all...

Maybe I figured out that it almost doesn't crash when I have a "Use Pri." setting ticked in Devices (I have only one GPU).

It's a mistery to me

I just save the scene all the time not to loose some important data. I can't live without Octane ( ) but can't move the workflow to Octane Standalone. So I just move along, but it pisses me off when sometimes after 4 mins. rendering it crashes, than you have to organise render queue again from the scene it lost and... bla bla... and bla bla...

Still Octane kicks asses

ok I just realised one thing.
When I try to use script in Photoshop, for exporting layers into files - it wan't work when the save folder is in Dropbox and synchronisation is on.

I think this might be the reason...

Just made 2 sets of renders via render queue, and was saving it in different folder than Dropbox, and there was no problem at all...

Could this be a reason?

slepy8 wrote:ok I just realised one thing.
When I try to use script in Photoshop, for exporting layers into files - it wan't work when the save folder is in Dropbox and synchronisation is on.

I think this might be the reason...

Just made 2 sets of renders via render queue, and was saving it in different folder than Dropbox, and there was no problem at all...

Could this be a reason?

Hmm, i did'nt think it's possible to use from dropbox. Can you use with standalone?
Please try without dropbox and watch results. Regards