Hi Guys,

I am trying to render a pyro sequence with mantra using pretty modest/standard settings.

Here is the tutorial I am following if it helps in any way (it's Russian but it can still be followed):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFrg9XDMwrA [youtube.com]

I am using Houdini 13 on Windows 8 on i7 Haswell with 16GB Ram (Not Ideal, I know).

However, there is a ‘hit or miss’ situation going on where sometimes randomly I will get an error mid-batch render saying that there is an ‘Error saving geometry for:’ and ‘Error loading geometry…’from stdin'.

So far this has happened with my volume light and now with my pyro material. A frustrating semi-fix is to delete the particular geo (the volume light for example) and re-import it, however this is far from ideal.

I don't have that much space on my Primary C: SSD drive (about 1.5gb), however this doesn't seem to be utilised during render so I don't think this the problem.

During render the CPU is almost completely utilised and the ram usage is around 50-60%.

If anyone could shed any light on this situation it would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

P.S. Sorry for the huge screenshot!

Hey, Yaoxeen

It could be your storage issues.

Try to make some enough space for your storage and give another shot.

Windows > Cache Manager > Clear All

if that fails, restart and try again.