Rhino Freezes during material adding

Rendering
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Hello team.
I am having a little problem with my Rhino 7. Everything going very nicely until a cpl days ago when adding a material to my model by using standard method of clicking material and selecting physical material etc etc all of a sudden makes Rhino freeze. Tried something from a previous thread - could not find RhinoCycles.VerboseLogging to change to ‘True’ - only ‘Rhinocycles.verbose’.

Any ideas?
Thank you
P

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Hi Paul -

Did something change on your system? New GPU drivers, Windows update, …?

Please run the Rhino SystemInfo command and copy-paste the result here.

When Rhino freezes, you can create a manual dump file and send that to us. You can find instructions on how to do so here → Manually Creating a Memory Dump (DMP File) from an Unresponsive Rhino for Windows [McNeel Wiki]
-wim

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Hi Wim. Thank you for your reply. Apologies for the double post I actually thought the reply to the thread just went to those in the existing chain. But I can see how that would be super difficult to keep track of now.
Yes, I think my windows did update recently.

Thank you for any help you may be able to offer!
Cheers
P

Here is the copy of my SystemInfo.

Rhino 7 SR37 2024-4-16 (Rhino 7, 7.37.24107.15001, Git hash:master @ d2e42f70b9d3aa58f6053e2998a0db2abcd7555b)
License type: Educational, build 2024-04-16
License details: Stand-Alone

Windows 11 (10.0.22631 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 24Gb)

Computer platform: LAPTOP - Unplugged [96% battery remaining] ~135 minutes left

Hybrid graphics configuration.
Primary display: Intel(R) UHD Graphics (Intel) Memory: 1GB, Driver date: 9-24-2020 (M-D-Y).
> Integrated graphics device with 3 adapter port(s)
- Windows Main Display is laptop’s integrated screen or built-in port
Primary OpenGL: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 with Max-Q Design (NVidia) Memory: 8GB, Driver date: 4-8-2023 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 531.61
> Integrated accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Video pass-through to primary display device

OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On
Graphics level being used: OpenGL 4.6 (primary GPU’s maximum)

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

Vendor Name: NVIDIA Corporation
Render version: 4.6
Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA
Driver Date: 4-8-2023
Driver Version: 31.0.15.3161
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 8 GB

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Common Files\McNeel\Rhinoceros\7.0\Plug-ins\Lumion LiveSync for Rhino (839d6175-32d1-4ffe-a0a4-b7fb43cf0ff5)\2021.3.25.899\Lumion\Rhino 7.0\LumionPlugin.rhp “Lumion LiveSync for Rhino”

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 7.37.24107.15001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 7.37.24107.15001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 7.37.24107.15001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk_ui.rhp “Renderer Development Kit UI”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Users\pauln\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\7.0\PanelingTools\2021.3.2.446\PanelingTools.rhp “PanelingTools”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 7.37.24107.15001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 7.37.24107.15001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”
C:\Users\pauln\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\7.0\SectionTools\2021.4.30.511\SectionTools.rhp “SectionTools”

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The latest studio driver for your GPU is

When you start the install use Custom/Advanced installation type, and check the Clean Installation checkbox.

Note that after updating drivers it can take a moment in Rhino 7 before the engine doing the rendering is ready. Best way is to open an empty file, switch a viewport to Raytraced, then switch back to Wireframe. It will appear to be hanging, but let it just sit there until it is finally back in Wireframe. After that the engine is ready. This part has been hugely improved in Rhino 8.

You won’t be able to find that in Rhino 7, it was added for Rhino 8 only (from Rhino 8.5 onwards or so).

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Hi Nathan.
Thank you for sending that update info through. I have updated and restarted but unfortunately the applying of material to layers still freezes the program. Do you have any other ideas please?
Thank you
Paul

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I would try disabling the Lumion plug-in and making sure for instance Rhino Render is the current renderer. Then restart Rhino and see if that helps.