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Insufficient memory for a 6m poly model with 8gb ram

Hello. I posted few weeks ago without any luck because I was having problems generating maps from my tools without getting insufficient memory errors. I still have that problem sometimes but I have another, very similar problem as well which I would love to fix.

I have 8gb of ram, 3ghz hexcore amd cpu. Windows 7 64bit.

Sometimes when I try to load my tools, I’ll get an error telling me I have insufficient memory for my tools since they are too complicated. Then zbrush crashes. Sometimes all I need to do to fix this problem is simply start zbrush up again and give it another try, sometimes I’ll need 4-5 tries and sometimes nothing works, I’ll simple get the error again and again and again until I try again few hours or days later.

I’m currently having the problem on a model made of 6 million polygons which does not seem like a lot. My maxpoly setting in zbrush is set to around 21 million polygons. 6 millions is nowehere near that and yet I get insufficient memory errors when loading the model?

I’ve lowered undo levels to 1 in the preference menu with same random results. Sometimes it’ll load, sometimes it wont. I’m getting very annoyed because this seems so random.

Then when I finally manage to open my tool and try to generate a normal map, I get the error again and I’ll have to start from the beginning again.

Does anyone else have similar problems or perhaps know the solution?

what is your ram set to in Zbrush? if you have 8gb you should crank it to 4096. It defaults to 256 I think.

If it is already set that way I would check your Ram and see if you have a bad stick.

I’m having the same problem! I’m new to Zbrush and after I’m getting the “Insufficient Memory is a result of 3D mesh with higher Polygon count than this system is capable of handling” error as well.

I’m running win 7 64 bit on a quad core and 6 gb or ram. I’m also on the trial version so I don’t know it that has anything to do with it. My active points are at 7,624 mil and my total points are at 17,571 mil. My MaxPolypermesh is 21.8 and the HD preview Maxpoly is 10.9 and Compast mem is default at 256 but I have to manually set it to 3000 every time I restart the Trial.

I’ll have my task manager open during the crash error and it does not spike all processing was normal. I did hardware test and everything is fine, so I would thing it’s something with my Zbrush settings or OS settings to the Software.

What can I do? PLEASE HELP!

@anthonybaiz…See this post for proper Mem settings. After you adjust them to where you want, hit Ctrl+Shift+I to store the configuration or go to Preferences>Config>Store Config.

Thank you so mush for replying so soon. I’ll do that and let you know the results

Thanks so much for that advice! I’m working alot better. I know that I have to be better on my techniques of sculpting from scratch as well.