Lutz Kretzschmar <lut### [at] stmuccom> wrote:
> Hi Thomas de Groot, you recently wrote in moray.win:
>
> >
> > "Lutz Kretzschmar" <lut### [at] stmuccom> schreef in bericht
> > news:q0ebr25jl2qmjdv43ea9fl70ttigdrks9v@4ax.com...
> > > Yes, please do. This is the first I've heard of this, so it seems to
> > > be isolated to your installation.
> > >
> >
> > Hm.... don't be so sure about that.
> I am sure that I have never heard of there being rendering problems
> related to POV-Ray parsing an exported scene.
>
> I have heard (and reproduced the behaviour) that Moray V3.5 and
> POV-Ray V3.6 (and later) cause the rendering to hang sporadically (or
> more often :-)). I even tried to find the cause some time ago,
> unfortunately, I was unsuccessful, probably due to the Heisenberg
> Uncertainty Principle :-). As soon as I added tracing, I could not get
> it to hang. This most likely means some kind of threading issue or
> race condition is happening. Maybe POV-Ray 3.6 uses multiple threads
> in a different way than earlier versions.
>
> - Lutz
>   email : lut### [at] stmuccom
>   Web   : http://www.stmuc.com/moray

I found that with moray 3.5 and povray 3.6 on win 98 , Moray is unable to
stop povray. If I start a second render before the first has stopped Povray
will hang and even needs to be reinstalled.


works just fine on windows XP.

Napivo

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