"Jaime Vives Piqueres" <jai### [at] ignoranciaorg> schreef in bericht 
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> On 05/09/2010 08:55 PM, Warp wrote:
>> In Unix-type systems you simple start povray with 'nice' (or renice it
>> afterwards with 'renice' or with 'top').
>>
>
>   I never needed to renice povray... when my CPU it's at 100% tracing a
> scene, I barely notice it on my regular work. In fact, I sometimes forget
> that there is a scene rendering into another desktop (usually I remember
> about it when I just clicked on the "shutdown" button... :).
>

I agree with you, as long as this is 3.6 or megapov and with Render Priority 
set to normal or low. However, with 3.7 my experience is that all other 
applications are severely hampered during render, whatever the Render 
Priority setting. Using WinXP on a dual core by the way.

Thomas

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