Corona 3Ds Max crash mid render

[ntoldi]

Hi, I am having a persistent crash that I can't solve. I have exhausted just about every option I can think so any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have a scene that without continues to crash. The time varies, crashing generally between 20-60 passes. It is a decently complex exterior scene with lots of foliage and furniture assets. I have already reduced the size of the file significantly, cutting out everything (within reason) that is not visible to the camera. The scene crashes without warning and no errors reported in the general 3Ds Max log. It will sometimes bring up an error report screen, but most times it just abruptly closes the program.

Things I have tried -
- Ran Max Scripts like "Prune Scene" and "Null Objects" to detect errors
- Merged the entire project into a clean file
- Archived the project to ensure all references were located in the same place with appropriate file path lengths
- Deleted forest pack objects
- Removed as much excess geometry as possible
- Cleaned up my render elements
- Reinstalled 3Ds Max, Corona and Forest pack with fresh and updated installs

A couple things to note:
1. I have rendered this scene before. I replaced a handful of assets since then, but nothing major. At least I thought.
2. I do get a memory error when starting the render, however, I rendered this scene and others many times and received that error on all of them and the scene has rendered fine.

Machine Specs:
- 4090 GPU
- 64 GB Ram

Any help is greatly appreciated! I am on a deadline and have no idea how to proceed. Thank you!

[notJGeorge]

Sounds like a you problem

[James Vella]

Sounds like you need to divide and conquer. Might be one piece of geometry or object thats crashing the scene.

Select half of the scene delete it, Render to 100 passes. If that doesnt work rinse and repeat until you find it. If both halves of the scene render correctly on their own you either have a problem with your max install/ENU or you have hit a hardware limit somewhere.

[Avi]

Hi, I am having a persistent crash that I can't solve. I have exhausted just about every option I can think so any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have a scene that without continues to crash. The time varies, crashing generally between 20-60 passes. It is a decently complex exterior scene with lots of foliage and furniture assets. I have already reduced the size of the file significantly, cutting out everything (within reason) that is not visible to the camera. The scene crashes without warning and no errors reported in the general 3Ds Max log. It will sometimes bring up an error report screen, but most times it just abruptly closes the program.

Things I have tried -
- Ran Max Scripts like "Prune Scene" and "Null Objects" to detect errors
- Merged the entire project into a clean file
- Archived the project to ensure all references were located in the same place with appropriate file path lengths
- Deleted forest pack objects
- Removed as much excess geometry as possible
- Cleaned up my render elements
- Reinstalled 3Ds Max, Corona and Forest pack with fresh and updated installs

A couple things to note:
1. I have rendered this scene before. I replaced a handful of assets since then, but nothing major. At least I thought.
2. I do get a memory error when starting the render, however, I rendered this scene and others many times and received that error on all of them and the scene has rendered fine.

Machine Specs:
- 4090 GPU
- 64 GB Ram

Any help is greatly appreciated! I am on a deadline and have no idea how to proceed. Thank you!

You can start a ticket and send your scene to use so we can try to investigate the issue.

https://support.chaos.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

[maru]

2. I do get a memory error when starting the render, however, I rendered this scene and others many times and received that error on all of them and the scene has rendered fine.

I think this is key information. If you don't have enough free RAM, literally everything can happen, including crashes, and even the disappearing without any error message that you mentioned. You either need to optimize the scene to use less RAM or install more RAM in your system.