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# 1 25-10-2007 , 03:06 PM

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Hi guys,

Im on the last scene of my portfolio,

For some reason i get

Error: An error has occurred. Rendering aborted. //
// Error: An exception has occurred, rendering aborted. //
// Error: Free memory is low. Memory exception thrown //

When trying to render a frame.

Now i know its not the memory since i have 4gb of RAM 300gb HD, 8800 GTS and with a quad core..

The scene is quite bit but i have cleaned everything up reduced the dmap res... everything i could think of.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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# 2 25-10-2007 , 07:03 PM

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If your on a 32 bit system then it can only allocate 1.5gig per process I think, that might be the problem?

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# 3 25-10-2007 , 08:00 PM

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If you're using mental ray and raytracing, you can try playing with the Bsp size and depth settings. You'll find them in the MR render globals under Raytracing/Acceleration. Search the docs for the meaning of these.

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# 4 26-10-2007 , 10:26 AM

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Thanks guys... the bsp seems to have donw the trick

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# 5 26-10-2007 , 08:01 PM

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lol we have the same computer if u have 2.4 and 640 videocard.

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