Howdy. I often do long animations that have very complex scenes, to the
extent that when I try to quit, it takes a few minutes to reclaim the
memory. However, even after quitting and closing the interface, my
system will grind to an incredibly slow tempo until I reboot. In fact,
once when I had quit PV and was trying to shut down, pvengine was still
showing in my Task Window (Win 98). Anyone ever have a similar problem?

Also, when I am rendering, hit Pause, and run another app, such as
Netscape, I get a series of "Cannot save file, file in use by another
application (paraphrased)" messages from POV. It's as if POV doesn't
recognize it is the app using the file.
Any comments?
Thanks much.
d.


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Dennis Miller wrote:
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> Howdy. I often do long animations that have very complex scenes, to the
> extent that when I try to quit, it takes a few minutes to reclaim the
> memory. However, even after quitting and closing the interface, my
> system will grind to an incredibly slow tempo until I reboot. In fact,
> once when I had quit PV and was trying to shut down, pvengine was still
> showing in my Task Window (Win 98). Anyone ever have a similar problem?

I have similar problems on occasion especialy when large amounts of memory
are used. I cannot explain why but I have to drop out to dos and delete the
swap file before system regularity returns.
 
> Also, when I am rendering, hit Pause, and run another app, such as
> Netscape, I get a series of "Cannot save file, file in use by another
> application (paraphrased)" messages from POV. It's as if POV doesn't
> recognize it is the app using the file.
> Any comments?
> Thanks much.
> d.

I only get the last problem when Pov does not close cleanly and again it
is related to scenes that require I use the hard drive for a swap file.
It does not happen predictably so I never bothered mentioning it. I
presume it is more a problem with windows memory management than a
problem with pov itself.

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