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I'm just following a tutorial on youtube, but when it comes to the end I cannot render the file, it always stucks and makes the screen black sometimes just showing nothing.

If anyone can help it would be appreciated. Thank you.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/vjvnaccxmyydmxn/lightsaber.blend1

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The file renders fine. But you are needlessly taxing your machine with too many subdivisions on the subsurf modifier:

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BE CAREFUL! In my experience going over 3 is not necessary and does have a huge impact on the computer's performance. Keep in mind that for every subdivision the number of polygons at render time increases exponentially.

Form the manual

Great levels of Subsurf demands more video memory, and a faster graphics card. Blender could potentially crash if your level of Subsurf surpasses your system memory.

Note about potential crashes: Be aware that the Subsurf Modifier will need more and more memory at higher levels of subsurf, and the more dense your base mesh, the more memory you will need. In 32 bit systems, Blender could potentially crash with malloc errors, when you surpass 2~3 GiB of memory used. This is not a Blender bug. Blender, when paired with a 64 bit system, could use 64 GiB of memory, thus reducing the chances of malloc() errors.

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Same scene with 3 levels of subsurf

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And with only 2

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  • $\begingroup$ thank you for helping me,this is the second day i'm using blender,and i do not know about subsurf demand can make crash,i change to level 3 subsurf and it works greatly. Im really helpfull thank you very much $\endgroup$
    – Andrew
    Commented Feb 22, 2016 at 3:24

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