Serious Mr Problems

Maya
1

Hi,

I'm using Maya 8.5 on AMD X2, 1GB Ram, Quadro FX1500....

First try to render: Nothing happens... and i get the error:
// Error: (mental ray) : cannot load D:/winxp/grafik/Maya 8.5/mentalray/lib/mi_openexr.dll, ...

Ok, now i hit the render button 2 or 3 times, the rendering starts, but then it interrupts and i get this error:
// Error: Fatal (mental ray) : mental ray encountered a fatal error. The system may have become unstable. Please save the scene and exit Maya.

...and i can't do anything until i restart maya.

Hardware problem? driver problem? what could i try doing?

Any ideas? Please help...

2

uaa, it appeared to be a subdivision surface issue...

edit: ok ok, now i know: always search for 5+ sided faces - that was the problem :confused:

never thought mr would crash because of that kind of problem!!

3

Hi,

now the same problem (fatal error) appears when I try to render my character with hair...

The character (poly) for itself renders, the hair for itself renders, but not both things together in one scene...
just head + hair crashes, too.

what could be the problem? memory? I' m using 2gb RAM...

please help...

4

ok, so now i decreased the hair count and reduced a 2k texture to 1k and it seems to work for now....

really seems to be a memory problem... is there a way to tune the mr memory handling so that this doesnt happen? Maya SW like i said has no problems...