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Serious crashing issue!

nelsonmccusker1_59a93bdcd6nelsonmccusker1_59a93bdcd6 Posts: 0
edited September 2014 in New Users

Hi all,

I'm quite new to Daz and have bought a fair bit of content for it. I'm loving how user friendly it is, but am having some seriously annoying issues...
When I go to render my scene with 3Delight, I frequently get crashes saying my NVIDIA Display Driver has stopped working, or even get a blue screen!
My computer is brand new, everything is updated, including Nvidia drivers. Here are my specs:

CPU: Intel® Core™ i7 4790K
CPU Cooler: Corsair Hydro Series H100i CPU Cooler
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SOC Motherboard
Graphics: 2x EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Superclocked 3GB in SLI
Memory: 2x G.Skill Ares F3-1600C9D-8GAO 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 (16GB total)
Solid State Drive: Samsung 840 EVO Series 250GB SSD
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 2TB ST2000DM001
Power Supply: SilverStone Strider Plus 1000W ST1000-P Modular PSU
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 64bit OEM

Has this got anything to do with my hardware or is it something else? It's getting really frustrating crashing frequently, even trying to render 'not that intensive' scenes.

I'd greatly appreciate any help!!

Thanks!

Post edited by nelsonmccusker1_59a93bdcd6 on

Comments

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,162
    edited December 1969

    Could be a couple of things.

    The CPU is overheating

    The Motherboard is overheating

    The memory modules, or one of them, is overheating.

    Try reinserting the memory modules first and see if that makes any difference, one of them might have become slack.

    For the motherboard make sure any fans are running as normal and that the vents aren't being blocked either outside or in, wires might be routed across behind the fans lessening there air flow. They might also be across the cooler fan for the CPU causing it to overheat.

  • jestmartjestmart Posts: 4,449
    edited December 1969

    I also suspect an over heating problem. I am not too impressed with liquid cooling, especially the new smaller sealed units.

  • kaotkblisskaotkbliss Posts: 2,914
    edited December 1969

    I would suspect the overheating is coming from the video card as a CPU or MB overheat would cut power to the whole system and there would be no blue screen or "Graphics card has stopped working"

    Since you have an SLI setup, be sure there is sufficient airflow between the 2 cards to keep them cool as they both get pretty hot when under load and being so close together for SLI means heat get trapped very easy there causing the cards to overheat.

  • SpottedKittySpottedKitty Posts: 7,232
    edited December 1969

    Keep in mind that 3D rendering — it makes no difference which program, it isn't just a D|S problem — is pretty much the most insanely intensive thing you'll ever ask your computer to do. Every part, CPU, graphics card, memory modules, sometimes the hard drives, are all working at full throttle until the render is over. This might be for at least several minutes, maybe an hour or more, maybe even more than a day if you're running an animation or a render with fancy tricks in it. Any part that's only marginally up to spec will be put under strain, and the cooling system (usually of the graphics card) is generally the camel that keeps getting entire haystacks dumped upon it from a great height.

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