I've been running a 3200x2400 version of my IRTC entry on my AMD Athlon
1800+ with 512MB running WinXP (whew!).  Last check, it's using about 800MB
of RAM, and is expected to take about 20 days.  However, if I set the render
priority to Lowest, I find that I am able to play games such as "Need for
Speed Hot Pursuit 2" and Quake3 without ANY noticeable loss in performance.
Sure, the render pretty much stops, but not completely.  Additionally, I can
run multiple versions of POV-Ray, and the foreground version seems to render
just fine.  If it seems too slow, I can always Pause the large render. The
only thing that really seems slow, are the times when it has to swap out the
memory, which aren't very often.

I've always believe that MS is evil (and still do *wink-wink*), but I really
like XP.  In fact, I even bought a copy for my wife's old Celeron 466 box.
I don't think I've had to reboot it once for a "blue screen" type issue
since I've had it installed (about 8 mos).  Perhaps I'm turning to the dark
side, or being assimilated, depending on your favorite sci-fi program...

--
Slash
"Timothy R. Cook" <z993126bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:3e678a70$1@news.povray.org...
> Apache wrote:
> > Find a 2nd computer and start the 800x600 render there.
>
> Better yet, find a 2nd computer and start the 1600x1200 render
> there so my main machine isn't tied up.  How fast is your computer?
> ;)
>
> --
> Tim Cook
> http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-empyrean
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