I had great performance rendering an animation scene in a more-simple file yesterday, but today with a more complex scene I got an NVIDIA driver crash message and 3ds Max crashed, whether I preloaded cash, used Error or CPU as backup. From Process Explorer graph, it looks like GPU runs out of memory on my NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1050.
3ds Max 2019 (latest), GTX driver v 26.21.14.3630 (436.30)