POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Rendering speed : Re: Rendering speed Server Time
10 Aug 2024 23:28:09 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Rendering speed  
From: Matt Giwer
Date: 12 Dec 1999 11:56:27
Message: <3853FDFA.283D4AEF@ij.net>
> On a Windows box
> I with an AMD K-6 II 3D and 64 MB of RAM I can get this to render only if I
> shut down my machine, close everything unecessary down, and then it will
> only render the scene three or four times before memory becomes so
> fragmented and un-freed that I get strange memory errors and have to shut
> down again.

    Welcome to the wonderful world of windows. There are a couple of programs
out there that claim to free up memory. I tried one and it appeared to have
about an equal chance of crashing my machine as freeing memory.


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