Author Topic: System Crash  (Read 1897 times)

2015-09-08, 00:00:01

vossiewulf

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Twice in last couple days have had entire OS crash with a blue screen while rendering in Corona. Appears to me to be my processor crashing (text on the blue screen disappears to quickly to read), but that's odd as before I settled on this overclocking - it's an Intel i7-5930K overclocked from 3.7Ghz to 4.2Ghz with water cooling - I ran the system through really brutal CPU and video stability tests for extended periods, like many hours. And haven't had it crash like this since initial overclocking experimentation back in December, and have played a bunch of intensive games and have been working in Photoshop and MAX.

Also strange that I was playing with Corona for several days and then twice in last 24 hours it's crashed like this.

So mentioning it in case there's an issue in Corona or at least you know Corona is capable of pushing CPUs even harder than CPU stability tests, so overclockers beware. If you want info about my machine let me know, but like I said looks to me like processor couldn't handle what Corona was asking of it at this overclocking. So going to step it down for Corona, I can change it on the fly. I'll let you know if that doesn't make it go away.

2015-09-08, 01:43:28
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vossiewulf

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Cranking it back to 4.0Ghz got me past 100 passes on the file that was crashing. CPU topped out at 83 degrees C.

So yes, it appears that Corona 1) demands more of the CPU than anything else I am aware of (including a series of rendering engines), and 2) it demands more than CPU stability utilities do :)

In short, if you have your CPU overclocked best to watch temp the first few times it's rendering something difficult and abort it if the temp gets high. Better than having entire system hard crash. You can then adjust the overclocking until you get it near max stable temp while under Corona load.

2015-09-08, 11:11:31
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ok, this is not really a Corona problem
Rendering is magic.How to get minidumps for crashed/frozen 3ds Max | Sorry for short replies, brief responses = more time to develop Corona ;)

2015-09-08, 11:49:43
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