yoaxeen

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!