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  Re: "Failed to start render: bad allocation"?  
From: Stefan Faster
Date: 4 Sep 2005 06:35:48
Message: <431ace04$1@news.povray.org>
"Lance Birch" <-> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:42ce0d16@news.povray.org...
> I've been trying to render a large image with the new beta and when I 
> attempt to
> do so I receive the error "Failed to start render: bad allocation".  The 
> image
> is slightly more than 16000 pixels wide and I'm using +FT and Display=Off. 
> It
> will also crash at random upon clicking Run to start the render (I can't 
> seem to
> find a pattern to this yet - it also occasionally crashes when closing 
> POV-Ray).
> It doesn't seem to have a problem with smaller images but I haven't 
> specifically
> tried to nail down at what resolution this starts happening (though if 
> it'll
> help I'll run some tests to find out the exact resolution that causes the
> problem).
>
> I just tried it with 3.6 and it doesn't seem to have a problem starting 
> the
> render.
>
> I'd really like to use the beta because it's going to almost halve the 
> rendering
> time for this particular image :)
>
> Lance.


Same problem here!
Seems to be appear by images larger then 10000 pixels width.
Tested with v3.7 beta8  pvengine.exe and pvengine-sse2.exe


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