Crashing when stopping render

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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I’m wondering if anyone may have some suggestions…

I have been trying to render a 4km2 site model… and Rhino has been crashing every time I have tried doing it above a particular level of resolution. I was watching my task manager and monitoring the level of memory being used. I had 16GB of RAM and was maxing out.

So I have bought more memory and am now up to 32GB working with my GeForce GTX 1060 6GB graphics card. I have again tried rendering and am pleased to say that the crashing has basically stopped. So it seems that I simply didn’t have enough RAM as Rhino is now taking my RAM usage up to 18GB when trying to render.

But… I now have a different problem.

If whilst I am rendering I decide to stop it so that I can change settings… it crashes every time! Is this just a bug in the current version of Rhino v6??

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Here is my system info:

Rhino 6 SR9 2018-9-28 (Rhino 6, 6.9.18271.20591, Git hash:master @ 4cf7435f08f51c972347c8558d28355cfc0471ca)
Licence type: Educational, build 2018-09-28
License details: Cloud Zoo. In use by: Glyn Whibley ()

Windows 10.0 SR0.0 or greater (Physical RAM: 32Gb)
Machine name: G-WHIBLEY-HOME

GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/PCIe/SSE2 (OpenGL ver:4.6.0 NVIDIA 391.25)

OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On

Anti-alias mode: 4x
Mip Map Filtering: Linear
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: Height

Vendor Name: NVIDIA Corporation
Render version: 4.6
Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA
Driver Date: 3-16-2018
Driver Version: 23.21.13.9125
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 6 GB

C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 6.9.18271.20591
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\RhinoRender.rhp “Rhino Render”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 6.9.18271.20591
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\rdk_ui.rhp “Renderer Development Kit UI”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 6.9.18271.20591
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 6.9.18271.20591
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 6\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”
C:\Users\glynw\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\6.0\Plug-ins\SectionTools (fbdb1d7f-8cfb-42c1-9858-87cb6315932c)\2018.4.17.851\SectionTools.rhp “SectionTools”

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Hello - what is the image size, in pixels, that you are rendering to?

-Pascal

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Also, is this with Rhino Render (i.e. using the blue Render button, or the _Render command) ?

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Image size is 14764x7707 at 150DPI - @ Good quality

Doing a top view render

using the side menu

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Render%20crashing
Render%20crashing1351×739 132 KB

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Hm - that is a 325 MB image if I did my sums right. Pretty big… I’d suspect that sheers size first, but of course it should not crash.

-Pascal