David VanHorn wrote:

> >  I wonder if someone can give me some advice as to how to optimize
> >povray to render very large scenes. My scene contains about 250000 frame
> >level objects and povray allocates about 800 MB. Needless to say that
> >the computer is running out of disk space (swap space) as soon as
> >anything else but povray runs on it.
>
> How much free disk do you have? Is adding another drive an option?
> Defrag, as IIRC win can't use fragmented space for it's swapfile.

  More disk space sounds like the answer. However if small gains are valuable
you might try DOS version if you are using rather than using windows.  It
says in the documentation that it is faster. (Is this true?)

Roger

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