Stop my 1600x1200 render, estimated to take a month to complete,
and redo it at 800x600, which would only take a week?

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Pfeh, I'm killing it.

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Find a 2nd computer and start the 800x600 render there.

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Apache wrote:
> Find a 2nd computer and start the 800x600 render there.

Better yet, find a 2nd computer and start the 1600x1200 render
there so my main machine isn't tied up.  How fast is your computer?
;)

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I've been tormenting my poor P3 866 by rendering more than one scene at the 
same time on occasion. I rendered my disp jitter sparklies and my signature 
all while my latest update to Balloon Trip rendered in the background. This 
may have lengthened all the renders but it works.

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camera{location 2*y-.9rotate -z*9direction z/1.5look_at y}global_settings{
max_trace_level 99ambient_light 10}#macro G(V,E)pigment{V}finish{diffuse 0
ambient .1-E/10reflection{E metallic}}#end#macro O(N,T)plane{y,N G(T,0)
hollow}#end#macro C(A)sphere{0,A#end O(9,blue 1)O(-1,rgb 1)box{1+9*y,-y-1G(
rgb 1,.95)hollow}C(.99)G(rgb 1,1)}C(1)G(red 1,1)no_reflection}// Greg E

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I've been running a 3200x2400 version of my IRTC entry on my AMD Athlon
1800+ with 512MB running WinXP (whew!).  Last check, it's using about 800MB
of RAM, and is expected to take about 20 days.  However, if I set the render
priority to Lowest, I find that I am able to play games such as "Need for
Speed Hot Pursuit 2" and Quake3 without ANY noticeable loss in performance.
Sure, the render pretty much stops, but not completely.  Additionally, I can
run multiple versions of POV-Ray, and the foreground version seems to render
just fine.  If it seems too slow, I can always Pause the large render. The
only thing that really seems slow, are the times when it has to swap out the
memory, which aren't very often.

I've always believe that MS is evil (and still do *wink-wink*), but I really
like XP.  In fact, I even bought a copy for my wife's old Celeron 466 box.
I don't think I've had to reboot it once for a "blue screen" type issue
since I've had it installed (about 8 mos).  Perhaps I'm turning to the dark
side, or being assimilated, depending on your favorite sci-fi program...

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"Timothy R. Cook" <z993126bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> Apache wrote:
> > Find a 2nd computer and start the 800x600 render there.
>
> Better yet, find a 2nd computer and start the 1600x1200 render
> there so my main machine isn't tied up.  How fast is your computer?
> ;)
>
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> Tim Cook
> http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-empyrean
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Had to reboot XP due to a number of blue screens now... (The first one was
11.9 seconds after the very first time I ever turned on the laptop, which
was a gift... "hmmm" was what I believe I said at the time...) I prefer
WinNT myself - seems much more reliable. But hey, I've got XP here, so I'm
not paying to change it...

On a more PR-themed note... I firmly believe that it's impossible to have
enough processing power to do what you want to do with something like a
raytracer (or fractal generator btw). Of course, a good optimisation goes a
long way ;-)

Andrew.

PS. Win2k looks like it's evil. Shame that's what I'm gonna be using at
work...

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On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 21:31:50 -0000, Andrew Coppin wrote:

> Had to reboot XP due to a number of blue screens now... (The first one was
> 11.9 seconds after the very first time I ever turned on the laptop, which
> was a gift... "hmmm" was what I believe I said at the time...) I prefer
> WinNT myself - seems much more reliable. But hey, I've got XP here, so I'm
> not paying to change it...
> 
> On a more PR-themed note... I firmly believe that it's impossible to have
> enough processing power to do what you want to do with something like a
> raytracer (or fractal generator btw). Of course, a good optimisation goes a
> long way ;-)
> 
> Andrew.
> 
> PS. Win2k looks like it's evil. Shame that's what I'm gonna be using at
> work...

Win NT 4? *shudder*... I think XP is the best of the Windowses right now 
(if that's a real word). I've always thought of 2000 as XP without the 
pretty interface. And BTW, the only time I've ever gotten a BSOD on XP was 
when I overclocked my vid card too much. Of course, we wouldn't have this 
problem if video card companies smartened up and started making RTRT cards 
instead! ;-)

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camera{location 2*y-.9rotate -z*9direction z/1.5look_at y}global_settings{
max_trace_level 99ambient_light 10}#macro G(V,E)pigment{V}finish{diffuse 0
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hollow}#end#macro C(A)sphere{0,A#end O(9,blue 1)O(-1,rgb 1)box{1+9*y,-y-1G(
rgb 1,.95)hollow}C(.99)G(rgb 1,1)}C(1)G(red 1,1)no_reflection}// Greg E

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Timothy R. Cook wrote:
> Pfeh, I'm killing it.

LOL


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no.... you should buy a new dual Athlon MP computer
a gig of pc3500 RAM and WinXP....

And have it done within the day

Alex

"Timothy R. Cook" <z993126bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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| Stop my 1600x1200 render, estimated to take a month to complete,
| and redo it at 800x600, which would only take a week?
| 
| -- 
| Tim Cook
| http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-empyrean
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