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From: Bob Hughes
Subject: Re: Power for POVray
Date: 2 Oct 2000 18:16:32
Message: <39d90940@news.povray.org>
"Bob Hughes" <per### [at] aolcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote in message
news:39d8d67f@news.povray.org...
| Hey, if it works I won't complain.  Seeing that it's for Win 95 or NT
might
| be a problem but hopefully not.

I didn't notice before that it actually says "min" Win 95 or NT.
Problem: The installation isn't English even though there is the English web
page.  Not that bad a thing except the installation fails.  Says Type
mismatch (I've seen that one before someplace) and then am asked to Retry
but that fails.  So I have to exit out.
Just so others here know beforehand.

Bob


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From: Mark Wagner
Subject: Re: Power for POVray
Date: 3 Oct 2000 02:14:14
Message: <39d97936@news.povray.org>
Heiner Maier wrote in message <39D8AC2E.6C0BB1A9@gmx.net>...
>I found a great program to make POV for Windows much faster: PowerTOP
>It can set the priority of processes under Windows! I made Povray3.1
>about 150 percent faster by setting POV's priority to RealTime and
>killing out some useless Winows-processes.

From personal experience with this sort of thing, I've found:
1) For almost everyone, the boost will be much smaller -- 3% to 5%
2) Be VERY CAUTIOUS when setting programs to Real Time Priority.  This gives
them higher priority than such things as the mouse, the keyboard, the disk
cache, and possibly much of the kernel.

Mark


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From: Heiner Maier
Subject: Re: Power for POVray
Date: 3 Oct 2000 03:02:59
Message: <39D9847A.92F34B37@gmx.net>
Mark Wagner schrieb:

> Heiner Maier wrote in message <39D8AC2E.6C0BB1A9@gmx.net>...
> >I found a great program to make POV for Windows much faster: PowerTOP
> >It can set the priority of processes under Windows! I made Povray3.1
> >about 150 percent faster by setting POV's priority to RealTime and
> >killing out some useless Winows-processes.
>
> From personal experience with this sort of thing, I've found:
> 1) For almost everyone, the boost will be much smaller -- 3% to 5%
> 2) Be VERY CAUTIOUS when setting programs to Real Time Priority.  This gives
> them higher priority than such things as the mouse, the keyboard, the disk
> cache, and possibly much of the kernel.
>
> Mark

Okay, i have an old P60 and there are running many processes that I can kill
with it. With 150% I mean that there is an acceleration of 50%, of course (think
of your math lessons). I'm sorry for this mistake!
You should set PTOP's Priority to "high" then at least the two programs, POV and
PTOP are reacting properly.
CU
    Heiner


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Power for POVray
Date: 3 Oct 2000 04:57:01
Message: <39d99f5c@news.povray.org>
It's funny that tools that in Unix are available as system tools (and have
been as long as I know) have to be made for Windows by 3rd party volunteers.
Tools that should be standard system tools.

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):_;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/


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From: Wolfgang Manousek
Subject: Re: Power for POVray
Date: 3 Oct 2000 16:51:38
Message: <39da46da$1@news.povray.org>
Have you tried to increase 'render priority' in the 'Render Menu' ?
what effect does this have to your render times ?

Wolfgang

"Heiner Maier" <Hei### [at] gmxnet> wrote in message
news:39D8AC2E.6C0BB1A9@gmx.net...
> Hi!
> I found a great program to make POV for Windows much faster: PowerTOP
> It can set the priority of processes under Windows! I made Povray3.1
> about 150 percent faster by setting POV's priority to RealTime and
> killing out some useless Winows-processes.
> You can download this prog under www.gsma.de (don't mind the ".de", they
> have an English page, too)
> Have a lot of fun...
>     Heiner
>


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From: Rick [Kitty5]
Subject: Re: Power for POVray
Date: 4 Oct 2000 04:20:31
Message: <39dae84f@news.povray.org>
> Have you tried to increase 'render priority' in the 'Render Menu' ?
> what effect does this have to your render times ?

personally, for me it has minimal effect, although over the course of a long
render it might make slight difference..

but as I usualy only do 2 types of render (slow in the background or left to
it all night)

Rick


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From: Markus Becker
Subject: Re: Power for POVray
Date: 5 Oct 2000 06:53:54
Message: <39DC5F84.873FA@student.uni-siegen.de>
Warp wrote:
> 
>   It's funny that tools that in Unix are available as system tools (and have
> been as long as I know) have to be made for Windows by 3rd party volunteers.
> Tools that should be standard system tools.

With the NT Taskmanager you can do exactly that.
But I doubt the 150% increase... (or even the 50% increase
as he said later...)

Markus


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Power for POVray
Date: 5 Oct 2000 09:27:22
Message: <39dc81b9@news.povray.org>
Markus Becker <mar### [at] studentuni-siegende> wrote:
: With the NT Taskmanager you can do exactly that.

  Well, NT is a true operating system after all.

-- 
main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
):_;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/


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From: Paul Heime
Subject: Re: Power for POVray
Date: 5 Oct 2000 10:05:06
Message: <39DC8B59.5A2459E6@gmx.net>
I didn't realize anything like a german installation. I downloaded PTOP11.zip
and installed it with an English installation program. Perhaps they've updated
the page.
EOF,
    Paul


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From: Bob Hughes
Subject: Re: Power for POVray
Date: 5 Oct 2000 14:50:20
Message: <39dccd6c@news.povray.org>
"Paul Heime" <phe### [at] gmxnet> wrote in message
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| I didn't realize anything like a german installation. I downloaded
PTOP11.zip
| and installed it with an English installation program. Perhaps they've
updated
| the page.

Hey thanks, you lead me to what I suspected was wrong.
The cache kept thinking it was the first file link I tried there.  I was
going through the German page and since it had a American flag showing too I
figured it was the link to get there.  Mistake, it's the English (Union
Jack) and US flag link at top of page.
So I cleared the temp cache and retried.  All English version know,
installer and program.
Thanks again.

Bob


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