[Solved] Baking in 4K freezes ToolBag

gfelton

Not exactly sure why this is happening but every single time I've tried baking out 4K normals with this one particular file, ToolBag freezes and the entire application turns white like this:
This only occurs with this one particular file though. As a test, I brought in a simple cube and baked normals from it without any problems in 4K, yet whenever I try baking this one scene, the above occurs. Something that also has me very confused is the fact that I am able to bake the scene with the problem just fine in every single resolution under 4K with any settings. Not sure what to do but I would love to know if this is a problem on my end as opposed to a problem with TB itself. Thanks for anything guys

horrorente

Are you baking an ao as well? because I thought I had this issue when baking an ao with a really dense highpoly but the programm just wasn't reacting for the time it baked. I just went outside for a cigarette and when I came back it had stabilized itself.

gfelton

Nah, I was just baking a simple tangent normal map. I'll try and see if just leaving it for some time will sort it out.

gfelton

Left it running for around an hour and a half today and it's still frozen

Edit: Super quick update, lowered the samples from 16x to 4x and was able to bake in 4k without issue. Since I'm doing this on a laptop I'm getting a feeling this could possibly be hardware related since my HP is incredibly dense but I'm honestly clueless.

EarthQuake

Normal map only bakes should be near instantaneous, or at worst result in a short delay. Could you give me some more information please?

What video card does your computer have?
How much ram does your video card have?
How many triangles does your high poly have?

One suggestion is to make sure that your video card drivers are up to date.

gfelton

I changed my GPU priority from 'High' to 'Responsive' and now all is well.

eldexxo

same thing happened to me. Thanks for the fix