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In article <Xns### [at] 204 213 191 226> , Marc Champagne
<marcch.AT.videotron.DOT.ca> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I have been experiencing long delays when launching POV for windows, it
> take anywhere from 30 seconds to 90 seconds before it has "loaded" and
> is ready to use.
>
> During this time there is lots of HD activity (scratching).
>
> The HD's are regularly defragged.
>
> For what it's worth, I have Win 2000, 1 gigahertz, 512k ram, plenty of
> disk space.
>
> This happens with and without scenes loaded and is usually on first
> launch after being closed for a while, subsequent loads are quick.
>
> What does POV do on startup that would explain all this scratching?
POV-Ray is deliberately trying to destroy your harddisk, isn't it obvious?
No, serious, you are just hunting ghosts. Maybe you should get a less noisy
harddisk... :-)
Thorsten
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