Mike8 nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 20/08/2006 14:16:
> "St." <dot### [at] dotcom> wrote:
>>    Michael, is it possible that you could upload the 8+Mb file somewhere,
>> and I'll see if it runs on my machine? I believe that I may have a similar
>> system to yours, (at least, I hope so, (apart from XP Home)):
>>
>>     Windows XP Home (5.1, Build 2600) SP2
>>     AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+, 1.6GHz
>>      1024MB RAM
>>      Page File: 214MB used, 2734MB available
> 
> Not quite as powerful as mine, but very close, a good way to test if I'm
> doing something wrong. I did find a few tweaks that I can make to my system,
> if they don't work I would be happy to send you the file. Thanks for
> offering!
>>    Other than the above, I can only suggest a couple more things that you
>> can try:
>>
>>      Faulty memory? You could try Memtest: http://www.memtest86.com/
> 
> It's a brand new computer, and Task Manager says that at times during the
> render I have some 300KB of available RAM out of 1GB, so I think it's not
> that, but I'll keep it in mind.
>>      Have you tried disabling all background services? (Although, this
>> shouldn't really be a problem as I run fairly heavy files with all services
>> running).
> 
> I close all programs except POV-Ray and Windows Explorer when rendering.
>>      Anyway, let me know if you upload the file and we'll see if it throws
>> any errors here.
>>
>>      ~Steve~
> 
> Thanks,
>    Michael
> 
> 
> 
> 
Programms are NOT services. Close all programms and see how many tasks are still 
running. Those are services that run in the background, several for absolutely 
nothing at all.
Some that you definately DON'T want to close/kill:
svchost
system
explorer
keys
regsvc
services
spoolsv
winlogon
winmgmt

The rest can usualy be shut down safely.

Some You realy don't need nor want ant office related ones, as well as any 
related to other programms that are not running, like ipod or quicktime and some 
others.

-- 
Alain
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