Computer Issues (Patreon)

Bad news:

The other night, my computer suddenly and without warning began freezing up completely during renders. Things were running fine and then… nope. 

My best and only guess is that it’s an issue with my RAM. When I ran a test render on a scene, my computer’s memory peaked at or above 99% at the point where it freezes up, so that seems to support that theory. Lately, I have been trying to render bigger and more complex scenes, and the section of Accolade that I was currently working on has a lot going on, which has been leading to these big renders. The weird thing though is that even when I try to re-render some previous scenes of size, my computer is freezing up despite in the past being able to render out without issue. So not only am I unable to render new scenes for Accolade, but the computer is also freezing for renders that it didn’t before.

The most obvious answer to fixing this problem is that I need to upgrade my RAM capacity. Luckily, RAM is one of the easier pieces of to replace, it’s just a matter getting the right hardware.

What’s this mean going forward? I can still work in the meantime; storyboarding pages, building and setting up scenes – just about everything prior to when the render button is pushed. I am also still capable of rendering out smaller, simpler scenes without my RAM overloading. But as mentioned, Accolade is anything but simple at the moment.

So, for the time being, new Accolade uploads are on pause until I can sort the computer issue. Smaller posts and pinups will still be possible, and maybe Bottled Potential can continue depending on where the threshold is on what my computer deems too complicated and freezes.

Thanks,