Questions tagged [memory-management]
Questions related to memory consumption. This refers to both RAM (Random Access Memory) usage and hard drive space.
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Full render in one tile - solution for lack of memory?
I created super complicated scene using 8gb out of 6gb of vram. On the way of trying to reduce memory usage I saw many times my gpu rendering only one tile, with all samples, and skipping rest of the ...
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Why does Denoising take up so much memory?
I tried to render my scene with the new 2.79 Denoiser.
During the Rendering Process everything was fine, my memory peak was about 1000M but as soon as the Denoising started it suddenly shot up to ~...
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Blender running out of memory in renders, but having no problem in previews
I am dealing with problem of... Out of memory in cuMemAlloc(&device_pointer, size)
Even though settings are the same in render mode and preview mode I have never encountered this issue in the ...
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I "run out of application memory" when trying to render a scene
I spent a long time designing a scene which involves 5 particle systems (no more than 1000 particles in each), and now I would like to render it.
Unfortunately, I invariably get this error message ...
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AMD High Bandwith Cache Controller - Unlimited Memory? [closed]
The Vega FE is already in stores. (not the cheaper RX)
AMD has been advertising their High Bandwith Cache Controller on their new Vega cards. It is supposed to allow for VRAM objects to be offloaded ...
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hello world script causes memory leak
My script generates about 400 objects. If I run the same script twice, I notice the object count remains the same, but the memory allocated does increase substantially.
I thought it was my code (and ...
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Blender error: out of memory
I have never used Blender, so I'm totally new to the software, but today a friend of mine asked me to use my computer to render a picture for him since he doesn't have a powerful PC. So he gave me the ...
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Blender 2.78 cycles out of memory problem, in both cpu and gpu
I have a out of memory problem with Blender.
My specs are:
I am using Blender 2.78, Cycles
Intel I5 2400
Nvidia Gtx 750 ti 2GB
8 GB ram
Windows 7 64 bit
I can render simple stuff, but now when I’m ...
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Game Engine: Can I load objects and scenes into memory?
Is there an option to load objects/scenes I want to memory to prevent lags? I don't want to let all objects spawn to buffer them or other tricks. How can I do this? And is it possible to remove them ...
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Computer stuck on fluid baking
I am trying to bake a fluid simulation of 1.45GB and my pc is stuck and stopped responding. What can I do? Will it help to increase my RAM amount to 16GB?
System specs:
Windows 10 Pro Insider ...
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Render a "long" video (> 2 mins) in one step, without running out of memory
I feel like I am missing something fundamental. Here is my problem: I am producing videos (10-30 minutes each), using the Video Sequence Editor – there is no 3D modeling involved here, just stitching ...
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Blender consuming all memory
I have hundreds of thousands of models in a folder. In my script I have a loop which loads each model at a time as object in my scene then render an image of it then delete the object. After couple of ...
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How do I get blender to leverage all the memory I have?
There are probably so many noob-facets to this question that it's not even funny. Basically I've never fully understood memory usage, despite being a professional digital artist for many years.
In ...
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Basic Cycles memory usage @98%?
I have a scene that sometimes crashes for CUDA errors (out of memory). So I put all elements on separate layers to figure out in rendered view which was the culprit.
Turns out, even if I have only ...
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Memory (and large project) management [closed]
From what I've understood from other questions here, group instancing and dynamic linking are two methods for managing memory in a project that is large or complex. The latter also allows one to ...
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Is there an easy way to see what is consuming the most memory?
Is there an easy way to see what is consuming the most memory?
For example:
-Objects / Object data
-Textures
-Lighting
-Particle Systems
-Material duplicates
-Caches
-Anything else that can cause ...
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Blender using memory for no reason; Blender loading up Memory Usage. Why is that?
So there's actually 2 problems I have regarding Blender's memory usage, which probably aren't much for a regular computer but really slow work for weaker ones and can even cause crashes.
So I have a ...
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Blender cycles rendering layer but keep to sum memory?
something i really don't understand!
i made different layer for my render.
i have 5 layers, i set for everyone: layer to render, layer to exclude and eventualy also the mask layer.
if i render from ...
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Memory increasing but not adding any new geometry
So I have a model and in the top right where it says the memory usage it changes even when I dont add any type of new geometry. I can just say move a vert and let go of the mouse so it doesnt actually ...
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Limit Blender RAM usage?
So Blender started crashing whenever I bake fluid for no reason (I mean no reason, discussion here). I'm thinking maybe reducing the amount of RAM it uses could help, but I can't figure out how to ...
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"Error Writing Frame" during movie render
I'm brand new to Blender. I've made three short videos with the most editing done to them being fade ins and fade outs and added audio. Never had a problem rendering those.
My new project, however, ...
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How do I see what is using Memory?
During the creation of a recent project the amount of memory used by Blender inflated to a massive(!) 11.8GB while attempting to render.
This makes rendering on GPU unusable for me (no Titan X's ...
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Growing memory usage when rendering animation
I'm using Blender 2.77a with Windows 10 64 bit on a 8 GB RAM PC and AMD R9 390 graphic card with driver 16.4.1.
When GPU rendering a very simple animation (350 faces, 150 frames, single PNG files) ...
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Why is there slowdown on a high poly mesh in edit mode when all faces are hidden?
I've been wondering this for years now, so I'm working on a high poly mesh and I've hidden all but 50,000 vertices, there's a fair bit of slowdown and I kind of get that but even if you hide ...
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What are the memory readouts referring to?
There are two sets of memory readouts I'm puzzled by. I need a better explanation of what they mean.
One is in the Info Window and says something like Mem:119.14M(9.99M)
One is with the render output ...
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What method is more efficient for making duplicate of an object: mirror it with modifier or instancing it?
I wonder what method i should use for making copies of original object, what is more memory/render efficient: mirror my object with modifies - "Array" or "Mirror" or instancing my object with Alt+D?
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How to retrieve context after a outliner.orphans_purge()
I've got a script that joins several object into one at every frame and then do several operations on the duplicated object.
However, I know that when a object is deleted in blender, meshes are ...
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Cycles GPU Texture-duplicate memory Question
Lets say we have 1024x1024 PNG texture called Texture.png
I Have multiple materials using the same texture, on import the textures were automaticly renamed to .001 .002 .003 etc.
And Im out of GPU ...
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infinite loop / ensure_lookup_table
what this script should do is add 1-3 little cubes to each side of a specific object (torus in my case for testing). then for each cube a random face within a section of the torus gets choosen and the ...
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Clear the sequencer memory cache?
I'm doing some motion tracking, and to quickly edit things I preload the frames into the memory. However, this fills up my ram, and sometimes (e.g when I'm not working with the footage) I want to ...
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Is it possible to use a displacement map without having real geometry?
I'm currently trying out displacement maps. As I was told by some video tutorials I need to apply them as a (displacement) modifier on the mesh. Therefore, I have to subdivide the mesh to achieve more ...
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Blender does not utilize full amount of VRAM
When trying to render my scene with my GTX 970 and cycles I get a cuda error saying that I was out of memory. However according to gpu-z I only got up to using 3228MB of VRAM, and according to blender ...
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How to avoid float texture limit for GPU rendering
In developing a relatively simple scene, I noticed that detail from normal maps were not being displayed for some objects. All of the maps were generated from Substance painter as .png (16-bits max). ...
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Can Cycles CUDA utilize more than 2GB of VRAM?
I'm trying to make a render with dual Titan X's, they have 12GB of VRAM each. If I ramp the tile size up it eventually slows down seemingly due to hitting a 2GB cap?
Is there a way to have the ...
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Not enough RAM for baking particles
Faced with such a problem - there is a system of particles in settings exposed saving cache to disk next to the file. Also, 400 frame animation of the object. The problem is that baking stops at 100 ...
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Why does Blender use so much memory for large textures?
Using a single 6K texture at only 227kb in size, spikes the memory usage to a crazy 144mb of memory in Blender.
It was brought up in this bug report, but closed.
Why can image editors (Photoshop/...
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Use all Ram on Blender when rendering? (Cycles and Blender Render)
I have 32 GB Ram on my computer, how can i make Blender use all (or at least, the most) of the RAM when rendering?
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Is there any disadvantage to using smoke adaptive domain?
In the smoke simulation settings, there is an option called smoke adaptive domain. It basically (as far as I can tell) just changes the domain's size at each frame to be just big enough to fit the ...
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.blend file size much larger after OpenGL Render
I am working on a detailed dialogue scene that is 600 mb. It is a very complex scene, with each part in single layers. I know that is a very big file size, but what my machine can handle it. What ...
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How to check how much GPU memory is used by object?
I wonder if there is any way to determine how much memory object or group of objects is going to use while rendering.
I was trying to follow some of recent Blender Guru's tutorials but it seems like ...
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Does Blender have a software-limited amount of RAM it can use?
The other way to ask this question is, are Blender's memory limitations solely hardware related? Or, is there a point at which Blender will either crash or fail to use additional memory, even though ...
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render 1 Frame of Big Buck Bunny fails
Im trying to render a single frame of BigBuckBunny with blender 2.72b on linux.
I downloaded all the files needed (2d blender files + http://graphicall.org/bbb/index.php )
Now I want to render a ...
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How can I save memory in cycles when I have a lot of duplicates?
I have a scene I'm working on which requires a large amount of duplicates which I was planning to use an array for.
I recently heard if you use Shift+D instead of Alt+D and wondered if there was a ...
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Which is more efficient? duplifaces, particles, or group instances?
Particles give more controls for doing things like randomizing rotation of instances, but duplifaces and group instances allow for rotation and scale of individual instances.
For something like ...
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game-engine : error totblock : 1. Memory Leak?
I've got this error when running the blender game-engine:
Error Totblock: 1
(The scene is running, but very slow, and this message appears a the end)
Apparently, ...
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Why should texture resolutions be powers of 2?
It's often said that texture dimensions should be square powers of two (512x512, 1024x1024, 2048x2048...), but what is the purpose of this really? I've given this advice myself and do it whenever I ...
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Import large model file into Blender
I have a 530 MB .ply mesh file that I am trying to import into a Blender project. However since the file is so large, Blender freezes up whenever I try to import it. Is there a way to work around this?...
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Maximum number of materials that can be added in a scene?
I have very large number of planes in my scene and each needs to be assigned a color, and to do that, I am assigning a material to each plane. Blender is allowing 2^15, i.e. 32768 materials. But the ...
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Rendering a large number of unique objects
I've got a script which imports a bunch of hi-resolution models onto a grid. It gives me this:
It's currently got 35 objects (81924 vertices per object), but I'd like to rotate the camera toward the ...
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How can I tell if Blender is using all 64 GB of RAM?
I have 64GB of RAM on my computer and I'm trying to check if Blender is using all that it can.
I still get viewport slowdown at times when working with complex objects. I know there are many ...
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