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schultk

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I am sure that this was posted, and if it was please point me to the correct thread, but Revit quits rendering halfway through a rendering.  I go to render and it renders about 50%, but when it gets to the antialiasing portion, it jumps to 100% complete and says it is done.  I am running Revit Architecture 2010 with Windows XP SP3 on a Dell Precision T3500.  It has 3.5GB of Ram, 2.53 GHz, and an Intel Xeon CPU.  It also has a ATI Firepro 2260 graphics card.

I have bumped up the Virtual Memory setting of my computer, but it didnt fix it.  Before I bumped up the Virtual Memory setting, I would go to render and it would give me an "unknown rendering calculation error occured" message. 

I have another computer that I normally render with that has lesser specs than the one stated and it can render fine, but it takes forever.  Any ideas of what is wrong or how to fix it?  The file sizes of the two projects I am trying to render are 56MB and 63MB.  Please help.  Thanks.

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see this, maybe can help you: http://www.revitcity.com/forums.php?action=viewthread&thread_id=21229

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You have the "Hardware accelaration" turned ON?  Did you switch 3GB? http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=8018966&linkID=9243099

Are you render interior or exterior? With Lights?

Do you have some RPC's in that view?

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I dont have the Hardware Accelerator on, but I might give it a try.  I read some of the Help file on it from Autodesk and it seems like the Hardware Accelerator would just help with shadows during regular use. but its worth a shot. 

I have adjusted the virtual memory of my computer, which is all that the 3GB switch is, I thought. I didnt adjust the boot file to give the option upon startup becuase I am not the only one that uses the computer and it would just confuse the other people.  If there is more to the 3GB switch please let me know.

All of the views I plan to render are exterior renderings with no artifical lighting and no RPCs. Some of them close to the building and some far away.  I have tested it multiple times with different sized renderings and everything.  I can get it to fully render as long as the rendering size doesnt really exceed 20" x 15" and 150 DPI.  But of course I need it to be a bigger than 20" x 15".   I am wondering if it could possible be a hardware issue...maybe my graphics card is not god enough?

I am also gonna try to render it at my desired size, but split it up with regions and paste them together afterwards.  If you got any other ideas I will try them. Thanks Typhoon.

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