Sorry if I'm starting to sound argumentative, but if you set the Render
priority to "Lowest", you should be able to play just about any game that
you want.  The worst that should happen is some initial swapping of RAM to
HD, or vice-versa.

I burned 2 CD's last weekend while my render was going, but I did pause the
render first.  I'm not sure what you mean about it not being practical.
I've never run POV-Ray on anything but WinXP, so maybe it's my OS that's
being so nice.  I guess I really don't know.

My render has been running for about 7 days now, and only about 1/3 of the
picture is done. :-/

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Slash
"Timothy R. Cook" <z993126bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:3e68ab74@news.povray.org...
> Slashdolt wrote:
> > Again, I'm not sure why you can't use your computer while it's rendering
> > something huge for a week.
>
> Well, I can, but I can't do other intensive tasks like burning CDs or
> playing online games where the amount of lag introduced by a program
> using as much of the processor as it can get is unacceptable.
>
> And burning CDs and raytracing at the same time is NOT practical,
> even if you can burn a CD and run 50 other non-raytracing programs
> at the same time.
>
> --
> Tim Cook
> http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-empyrean
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