LogicReinc
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1 year ago Hey @sprogiman , Thanks for the detailed report, that saves a lot of time figuring out whats wrong. But the exception makes it pretty clear something goes wrong in serialization (not unstable connection), specifically a decimal value being expected somewhere but not found. I'll see if I can test it this weekend. If I fail to reproduce it I may ask for some more information then.
So far I suspect it it has nothing to do with your setup (hopefully) and should be a relatively easy fix if I can reproduce it.
If you do want to provide more information ahead of time, you could give me screenshots of your render settings (the settings found in the tabs in bottom right), or type them out. Then I know for sure what configuration you use.
A possible workaround that comes to mind is trying to use a different render strategy. I assume SplitHorizontal is used (and is recommended) but SplitChunked might resolve it temporarily as it uses a different method for render request.
sprogiman
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I have two computers: Blender work is done locally on PC1 Windows 11 21H2 Ryzen 9 5900x Nvidia GTX 1080 32GB DDR4
Want to add my other computer as a node to help out with rendering PC2 Windows 11 22H2 Ryzen 5 3600x Nvidia RTX 3080 16GB DDR4
Note: client and server using the latest 1.1.3 Versions
So I download and run the Client on PC1, Select Blender 3.0.1, since the work is done on 3.0.1 for maximum compatibility and select a .blender file, loads up just nice.
Then I start the Server on PC2, seems to start fine no errors or anything
On PC1 I add the PC2 node, PC2 downloads Blender 3.0.1 just fine On PC1 then I hit "Sync all", that works fine. I can see on PC2 "BlenderFiles" folder, that .blender file has synced over just fine.
PC1 reports as Localhost:15000 (on the LAN as 192.168.1.161) PC2 reports as 192.168.1.217:15000
Checkboxes are set for the Default "Use Automatic Performance" and "Workaround"
When I hit render, PC1 starts the render with no problems while PC2 loses connection multiple times and stops an error.
On PC1 client I can see PC2 with these two errors: 1) Render Fail: Failed to recover too many times, connection too unstable 2) Cannot access a disposed object. Object name: "System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient".
On PC2 server console window:
IP Addresses of this Server: Host Address #1: 192.168.1.217 Port: 15000 Cleaning up old sessions.. Server Started Received checkProtocol [58] from 192.168.1.161:62125 Received computerInfo [42] from 192.168.1.161:62125 Received prepare [60] from 192.168.1.161:62125 Downloading blender-3.0.1... Extracting blender-3.0.1... blender-3.0.1 ready Received sync [95] from 192.168.1.161:62125 Received syncUpload [3149912] from 192.168.1.161:62125 Received syncComplete [83] from 192.168.1.161:62125 Received checkSync [91] from 192.168.1.161:62125 Received checkSync [91] from 192.168.1.161:62125 Received isBusy [42] from 192.168.1.161:62125 Received render [308] from 192.168.1.161:62125 TCP listening exception: Failed to parse RenderRequest due to:Decimal constructor requires an array or span of four valid decimal bytes.
I have tried multiple versions of the software, tried to switch the computers around and clicking check boxes and nothing seems to help, always the same thing. I noticed that both PC's report the same ports, so on PC1 client I edited the port in the "ServerSettings" file to 15001 and that did also not help.
During initial testing both computers have disabled firewalls, they are connected locally with a Wired Ethernet cable that goes to a Switch, which then goes to our router wired correctly with a stable 1GBit connection on the LAN.
PS. I am not trying to render anything special, just currently trying to render the famous bmw car benchmark render
Any ideas?
Thanks.