Simulation Stop. Need help

[jackytop]

My Machine's got 36G Memory.
Fumefx simulation just stops as it gets to the frame 265 though I have enough Memory available.

I am still checking my memory and have no probem (20G more memory available yet)

Here is the log below

Frame: 264
Vmax=7.107, dtReq=0.31, steps=1, CFL'=16.24
[FFX Particle Src001] Building voxels for particles
Total of 117120 (3.5 Mb) voxels for 336 particles
Resizing: from (346,375,373) to (348,375,374)
Memory used: 2141Mb
ApplyForces done in 1.94 sec
Advect velocities done.
CG done in 32.92 sec with 199 iterations (290.242 MVOPS).
CG res e:-5.005 m:-5.005
Advect fields done.
I/O done in 1.13 sec
Saving fxd data OK.
Frame time: 01:07.11

Frame: 265
Vmax=9.230, dtReq=0.24, steps=1, CFL'=21.09
[FFX Particle Src001] Building voxels for particles
Total of 188370 (5.6 Mb) voxels for 403 particles
Resizing: from (348,375,374) to (349,376,375)
Memory used: 2158Mb
ApplyForces done in 1.95 sec
Advect velocities done.
CG done in 32.92 sec with 197 iterations (289.705 MVOPS).
CG res e:-5.003 m:-5.003
Advect fields done.
I/O done in 7.43 sec
Saving fxd data FAILED (low RAM).
Frame time: 01:12.93
Simulation terminated.
Flushing FFX Particle Src001
Flushing RAM

[sitnisati]

Hello,

Do you have enough disk space ?
What is your OS ?

Thank you

Kresimir

[jackytop]

Os is Window XP 64bit and DiskSpace is 5 Terra bite and 4 Terra is available now .

I still can't find out the solution yet. Please ~

[sitnisati]

Hello,

It is hard to tell without the max file.
Can you send it over so we can see if it's reproducable here?

Thank you.

Kresimir

[jephkneel]

We had the same problem here, solved it by un-checking the "Ability to Stop/Continue" option in the preferences dialogue box.

-Geoff

[hammerhead]

I was having a similar issue, except it would not save out the state of the SIM and I would have to restart the simulation all over again. Also, I use a script to run multiple containers one after the other, and this bug/issue would terminate the script from moving onto the next container. Is there a better fix than turning off the "ability to start/stop simulation" option?

[jackytop]

We had the same problem here, solved it by un-checking the "Ability to Stop/Continue" option in the preferences dialogue box.

-Geoff

Ah! Thanks for that info Geoff!!

I will try that.

One more problem here is flickering!!

Smoke Render flickers all the time. Is this bug gone in 3.02 patch ?

[sitnisati]

Works fine here all the time - no flickering.
Any clip you can post ?

Thank you

Kresimir