Runtime error on render but the render continues, any tips to save the image?

[Superza]

Hi all, just to signal a  curious thing: while render a scene i got A runtime error (3 TIMES UNTIL NOW!) , but in this last i was looking that the render still proceed!
I was wondering, take the chance that the render ends, will  i be able to save it also with the runtime error?

The main problem is that if i click on "OK" button TGD will terminate, and obviously the main focus dont let me click on save button...
What do you think?
Best regards
Max

[cyphyr]

Have you checked in your Terragen temp folder?
It may be there
Richard

[Matt]

I think it's unlikely that you would be able to get a successful render even if you allowed it to continue. One of the threads may have crashed.

The pre pass seems to be incomplete, so I guess the renderer got into trouble much earlier. How much memory is TG using (Mem usage + VM Size for the tgd.exe process in the task manager)?

Matt

[Superza]

I think it's unlikely that you would be able to get a successful render even if you allowed it to continue. One of the threads may have crashed.

The pre pass seems to be incomplete, so I guess the renderer got into trouble much earlier. How much memory is TG using (Mem usage + VM Size for the tgd.exe process in the task manager)?

Matt

Thank you all for the replies, Matt you are right, after a couple of hours the render stops as you can see, memory utilization while rendering was 1.1 gb (system has 2 gb of real memory + 2 swap).
Looks like to be a quality/resolution problem 1200*600@0.5 renders correctly.. everytime i try on 1600*800@0.9-1 i got the runtime error

[Superza]

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Looks like to be a quality/resolution problem 1200*600@0.5 renders correctly.. everytime i try on 1600*800@0.9-1 i got the runtime error

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I launch a new try @0.8 quality... let's see whats happen

[Superza]

Looks like to be a quality/resolution problem 1200*600@0.5 renders correctly.. everytime i try on 1600*800@0.9-1 i got the runtime error

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I launch a new try @0.8 quality... let's see whats happen
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Same error with more information this time, i'll try to reduce subdv cache as suggested...

[reck]

Thats exactly what happened to me as well in one of my scenes. I have 4GB in my system and I was only rendering at 800x600 resolution.

http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=4490.0

I tried to render two or three times and always get a runtime error.

[Superza]

Same error with more information this time, i'll try to reduce subdv cache as suggested...

Lowering subdv cache from 400 mb to 200 mb works fine for me; 1280*608@1 rendered successully
now i'll try 1600*760@1 to see if is the rigth workaround...
Thank you all !!
Best Regards
Max

[Matt]

If it's not inconvenient to do so, it's also good idea to restart your computer before doing any memory-intensive render.

Matt

[Superza]

now i'll try 1600*760@1 to see if is the rigth workaround...

unsuccessfull i tried at least 10 times, also changing position.
The strange thing is that TGD renders also some surfaces under water before render water putting also vegetation under the limit i set fot its altitude.. this is so strange...
Best regards
Max