Yep, the slowdown happens to me, too. No swapping, but the system looks as if
POV were still rendering at full priority.
I haven't gotten the message you describe. I do however get "File changed
outside POV, reload?" quite often, although I've done nothing with the file in
question.

Margus

Dennis Miller wrote:
> 
> Howdy. I often do long animations that have very complex scenes, to the
> extent that when I try to quit, it takes a few minutes to reclaim the
> memory. However, even after quitting and closing the interface, my
> system will grind to an incredibly slow tempo until I reboot. In fact,
> once when I had quit PV and was trying to shut down, pvengine was still
> showing in my Task Window (Win 98). Anyone ever have a similar problem?
> 
> Also, when I am rendering, hit Pause, and run another app, such as
> Netscape, I get a series of "Cannot save file, file in use by another
> application (paraphrased)" messages from POV. It's as if POV doesn't
> recognize it is the app using the file.
> Any comments?
> Thanks much.
> d.
> 
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