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> I start an overnight render. I wake up the next morning, expecting a beautiful,
> polished image.
>
> Instead, the damn machine has gone into sleep mode!
>
> Sleep mode is good. It saves power.
>
> BUT NOT WHILE THE COMPUTER IS IN THE MIDDLE OF A TASK.
>
> Someone recently mentioned the principle of least surprise in p.o-t. Micro$hit
> seems adamantly opposed to the whole concept.
>
>
>
One of the first thing I do on a freshly installed/new computer it to
set it as a presentation machine. This effectively disable automatic
sleep mode.
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On 27/09/2011 7:58 PM, Cousin Ricky wrote:
> Sleep mode is good. It saves power.
>
> BUT NOT WHILE THE COMPUTER IS IN THE MIDDLE OF A TASK.
Create a custom Power Plan to use when rendering when the 'putor never
goes to sleep.
Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Power Options\Edit Plan Settings
--
Regards
Stephen
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On 27-9-2011 23:10, Stephen wrote:
> On 27/09/2011 7:58 PM, Cousin Ricky wrote:
>> Sleep mode is good. It saves power.
>>
>> BUT NOT WHILE THE COMPUTER IS IN THE MIDDLE OF A TASK.
>
> Create a custom Power Plan to use when rendering when the 'putor never
> goes to sleep.
> Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Power Options\Edit Plan Settings
>
>
Hey! thanks Stephen! I had not (yet) found that option either! I have
selected High Performance now.
By the way: Personally, I like Windows 7 quite a lot...
Thomas
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On 28/09/2011 8:59 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> On 27-9-2011 23:10, Stephen wrote:
>> Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Power Options\Edit Plan Settings
>>
>>
> Hey! thanks Stephen! I had not (yet) found that option either! I have
> selected High Performance now.
>
An essential setting for all Povers IMO.
> By the way: Personally, I like Windows 7 quite a lot...
>
So do I. It is a bit resource hungry but my current machine has the
resources. I actually saw the memory usage go higher than 5.5 Gigs today
while I was experimenting with Poser hair.
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Regards
Stephen
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On 28-9-2011 12:05, Stephen wrote:
> On 28/09/2011 8:59 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> On 27-9-2011 23:10, Stephen wrote:
>
>>> Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Power Options\Edit Plan Settings
>>>
>>>
>> Hey! thanks Stephen! I had not (yet) found that option either! I have
>> selected High Performance now.
>>
>
> An essential setting for all Povers IMO.
Absolutely. I had not looked at the power utility yet because I believed
it was not essential when on a PC. How wrong I was :-)
I should do something to my Windows 7 Curiosity Setting: Very Low; Low;
Average (default); High, Very High.
Mine was set at Low apparently... ;-)
>
>> By the way: Personally, I like Windows 7 quite a lot...
>>
>
> So do I. It is a bit resource hungry but my current machine has the
> resources. I actually saw the memory usage go higher than 5.5 Gigs today
> while I was experimenting with Poser hair.
Yes, that can be expected. Best to have enough resources.
Thomas
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> I start an overnight render. I wake up the next morning, expecting a beautiful,
> polished image.
>
> Instead, the damn machine has gone into sleep mode!
>
> Sleep mode is good. It saves power.
>
> BUT NOT WHILE THE COMPUTER IS IN THE MIDDLE OF A TASK.
>
> Someone recently mentioned the principle of least surprise in p.o-t. Micro$hit
> seems adamantly opposed to the whole concept.
>
>
>
By the way, power management have been there since windows 95 if I
remember corectly... Things like turning display off, powering off the
hard drives when idle, throtling down the CPU if the BIOS support it,...
It's only that some features got added over time as the hardware started
to offer the possibility, and the terminology used seems to have changed
with 7... to some extent.
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On 9/27/2011 13:36, Warp wrote:
> Cousin Ricky<rickysttATyahooDOTcom> wrote:
>> Instead, the damn machine has gone into sleep mode!
>
> And I assume there's no way of saying "don't go to sleep mode if this
> program is running"?
Windows asks each program if it's OK to go to sleep before it does so.
POV-Ray would have to be coded to recognize that message and deny sleeping
while a render is in progress. Most disk burners, for example, will do this.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
How come I never get only one kudo?
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On 29-9-2011 21:15, Darren New wrote:
> Windows asks each program if it's OK to go to sleep before it does so.
> POV-Ray would have to be coded to recognize that message and deny
> sleeping while a render is in progress. Most disk burners, for example,
> will do this.
Am I right in assuming that we should put this is the Wish List?
Thomas
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On 10/2/2011 23:48, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> Am I right in assuming that we should put this is the Wish List?
Not for me personally, but it's certainly something I could see many people
wanting, especially if you make it an option in the windows interface that
can be checked on and off: "Prevent sleep while rendering?"
I'm actually not sure how you make the machine sleep when the render is
finished if you've told it not to sleep, like whether Windows keeps asking
you every few minutes or something, or whether you have to say "OK, try
again" when you finish.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
How come I never get only one kudo?
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On 10/2/2011 23:48, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> Am I right in assuming that we should put this is the Wish List?
Actually, it seems pretty easy, relatively speaking.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa373208%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
It looks like adding a call to
SetThreadExecutionState(ES_SYSTEM_REQUIRED)
each time a work unit is dispatched in the renderer should be enough, as
long as at least one of those work units is going to finish before the sleep
timer runs out. Adding in ES_CONTINUOUS might be good, but you'd want to
take care that you don't fail to clear that at the end of the render, too.
Probably safer to keep telling it you're awake than to tell it to stay awake
until further notice.
HTH!
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
How come I never get only one kudo?
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