Sean Ralphs

Hi, I recently upgraded from Houdini 16 to 17 and I'm having some real problems with the new version. The startup time takes a couple of minutes which isn't really an issue but it means my computer is running at 98% memory, this wouldn't really matter however even after the startup has finished Houdini consistently is taking up 90+% of my computers memory even on the default opening screen. I have 32gb of RAM in my machine and this problem is causing very frequent crashes, does anyone have any suggestions?

cpb

SeanRalphs19
How do I get it to render each frame consecutively?

depends on what task scheduler you're using… if its Deadline try adding -chunksize 1 to the command.

At the moment I'm just using the built in Houdini one (when you click Render To Disk In Background and the popup asks whether to open the scheduler?)

cpb
sorry forgot to mention farming it as 1-frame per task…

Thanks, I'm trying that now! How do I get it to render each frame consecutively? Currently when I queue multiple frames in hbatch it's trying to do them all at the same time.