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14 Aug 2024 01:17:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Advice on large scenes ?  
From: David VanHorn
Date: 29 Apr 1998 13:55:08
Message: <6i7pll$b38$1@oz.aussie.org>
>  I wonder if someone can give me some advice as to how to optimize
>povray to render very large scenes. My scene contains about 250000 frame
>level objects and povray allocates about 800 MB. Needless to say that
>the computer is running out of disk space (swap space) as soon as
>anything else but povray runs on it.

How much free disk do you have? Is adding another drive an option?
Defrag, as IIRC win can't use fragmented space for it's swapfile.


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