Not Enough Memory to Render Model

[Anonymous]

I upgraded the Ram and have now 3Gig of Ram ... I have rendered a movie and multiple stills from the same model when I only had 1Gig Ram ... When I try to render with the upgraded memory I get the message " Not Enough Memory to Render Model "
When I render a partial (marque of one story), it goes through and works ... but when I see the whole thing in 3d and tryto render I get the erro rmessage.
Windows task manager shows that only 1.53Gig of the memory is used ... oonw core working at 100% and the other on 1%.
What is going on?:shock:
thank you

[Erika Epstein]

I believe on the windows platform we have a 2G use of memory limit. If you do a search here you will find a more elaborate answer.

[Anonymous]

But I dont even get to 2G

Right now the issue has become that Arhchicad is reezing adn not responding ... I will reinstall it and see what happens.

[Anonymous]

Uninstalling nad then reinstalling worked.
I have both cores working at 99% and the PF usage is 1.7GB
The Picture is coming out perfectly.

I hope someone with the ArchiCAD team reads this ... since it did not go out as a bug report.
If anyone from the Archicad team is reading this:
"Autodesk just bought GreenBuildings.com"
This is huge potential for them to come up with a program that intigrates all the goodies they have.

I hate AutoCAD and foudn Revit hard to use ... please keep up the good work

[Anonymous]

As soon as I put back the Addon folder I came by the same problem ... I think there is a conflict between one of the addons ... I have third party addons that I think are giving the problem.

ArchiCAD recommends over 2GB Ram ... no less than 1GB ... not over 4GB
http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/system_requirements/

[Anonymous]

BUtI still have a problem ... I dont know if I haveadded a mismatch skin to render or what ... in the middle of trying to render my computer core stops working and the memory gets cloged for whatever the PF usage was at the time it started to stall ... any one ... wny idea whats going wrong?

[Laszlo Nagy]

Ebbie wrote:
I hate ArchiCAD and foudn Revit hard to use ... please keep up the good work

I guess you wanted to write:

"I hate AutoCAD"

Didn't you?

[Anonymous]

In very big models, turn off layers you don't need in your render, not only use marqueetool.

I don't exactly know the procedure of ArchiCad's render, but if it like others, than even things you can't see (but it's there) will be calculate. Like indoorstuff on an outdoor render.

And a marquee-cut of an 3d model is harder to calculate than a layeroff (normally). A layer off isn't there at all, but a cutted model is a calculate view of a bigger model.

[Dwight]

Exhausted memory is usually a sign of a corrupted element. While reducing layers seems to relieve the strain of building the model file, it also might turn off the layer containing the problem element.

Sometimes users have turned off their error messages - see the report for possible warnings that might be a clue about the corruption.

[Anonymous]

I am thinking the problem is the JPG I am using ... it is a larger size than the other JPG skins.
Here is the interior of the model ... you can only imagine what the exterior is because I can render it ... teh brck is fine here but on the exterior since thre is a lot of it I am guessing it freezes.

I will try turning the lamps off and the furniture off ... if that does not work I will change the brick and see if that is the problem.

I am using the Education version and dont know it it would be different than the full license ... I doubt it would be different.