Crassworm wrote:
>ZenDragon wrote:
>>I'm running POV Ray on a rev B iMac, 233MHz with 96mb of RAM with OS 9.2.2.
>>I run into the following difficulty:
>>
>>I can get a scene to render and saved so that I can open it in a different
>>program such as QuickTime Picture Viewer, but the rendering progress
>>dialogue box will not close.  It continues to run a striped bar along the
>>progress bar and never gets to showing progress.  I have let it run to see
>>if it was just slow, but it would run for more than an hour with no change.
>> Pressing the stop button had no effect, nor did pressing the keyboard
>>command for stop or pause.  I could still operate in other windows, but
>>couldn't save work, render other projects or quit the program.  The only
>>option I had is a force quit, and this sometimes even crashed the computer.
>> I'm not sure what to do about this, whether this is the result of a
>>deficiancy in my computer or a bug in the program, or whether I am simply
>>commiting an act of OTS (operator too stupid).
>>
>>I hope someone out there can help me fix this difficulty so I can use this
>>neat program.
>>
>>Dragons of the Dawn
>>
>
>I got that too... i have the same comp as u.  I downloaded an independent
>povray patch called MacMegaPOV and it works fine!!
>

Ditto here... going to try MacMegaPOV.
My computer is different, though - I have a beige G3 tower.

Thanks!


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