Problem with empty render elements (deadline 4.1)

Deadline
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Hello,

we are having a severe problem with saving out render elements when rendering with deadline 4.1. Our renderfarm contains 30 renderslaves, all running win7 64, 3ds max 2011, 32-64 GB and deadline 4.1.

Before rendering with deadline, we rendered with backburner 2008.1.1 and all render elements and frames were saved correctly.

When rendering with deadline 4.1, some rendernodes don´t write the frames and render elements properly, they are empty with a filesize of 0kb to 44kb (exr).
Interestingly this only happens after some frames were saved correctly on these nodes. After a couple of rendered frames, the wrong files appear. Also this is only a problem with the render elements, not with the RGB files, saved from the output directly from the render dialog.

Nothing else has changed in the configuraton of the rendernodes.

Does anyone know what can cause this problem ?

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,
Martin

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Hi Martin,

When submitting the job to Deadline, do you have the option enabled to “Restart Renderer Between Frames”? If not, try enabling this to see if that helps. This has been known to help fix weird issues like this.

Cheers,

  • Ryan
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Thanks, we tried this option and it didn´t help.

But we found out that the 5.2 Test version works fine on the machines that made problems with 4.1 before. So the 5.2 solves the problem as it seems.