Out of Memory Expect Crash!!!!!

[jagged987e]

Hey folks,

Been playing around with Keyshot for a little while now and have just encountered my first major problem which I was hoping others on this forum may have some insight into or encountered in the past.  I imported a model I was working on recently into Keyshot from Solidworks and began applying materials and lighting, the usual.  I have made approximately 10 materials, 8 of them emissive graphics created in Illustrator and saved and applied as pngs to windows.  The other made materials are simple bump map and color.  I got through the entire, lengthy process of assigning and making materials, mapping the images perfectly to their respective surfaces, etc. . .   It was never able to render though and would crash.  Now, it won't even open and I get an error message after about 15 minutes of waiting saying out of memory, requesting some 1898400720 bytes expect crash.  I have 8gbs of ram installed, no other processes running, a decent video card, intel core duo processors and plenty of physical memory.  WHAT'S GOING WRONG?  I am looking into upgrading my processors to an i7 or i5 if it'll help but I was hoping there was something someone out there knows that I've overlooked.  Please help, any advice is appreciated.

[guest84672]

What OS are you running?

And how big is the model that you are rendering?

[jagged987e]

Thank you for the quick reply.  I am running Windows 7 64 Bit and the model is a 27MB Assembly.

[guest84672]

Have you looked at your RAM consumption? Maybe RAM hasn't been cleaned out from a previous session. You should definitely not run of memory.

Can you do a reboot, make sure memory is clear, and try again?

[jagged987e]

Sorry for the delay.  Been in DC after that storm that rolled through with no power.  I've tried the reboot, still it takes forever and a day to to open,   it loads materials and project without showing the rendering spheres but the model never loads then crashes.  I may just start over.  It could have something to do with my custom materials I created as well in retrospect.  Maybe the images I was using were too large.  One last question though before I give up, if I were to take this keyshot file to someone else's computer and have them try rendering it, how could I access my custom materials if they've been saved onto my computer?  Would I just have to relink the image file again?