I'm having trouble on a similar machine getting POV-RAY to render at all; it
seems just to hang.  Are the extensions I can kill or other things
necessary to get it to render?  Thanks in advance!

Cheers,

Roger



bob douglas wrote:
>I have a G4 400MHz (AGP Graphics) 104 running OS 9.2.2 and about 200 extensions.
>After having a great deal of trouble getting 3.5 to work I scoured the postings for
>help.
>
>Some good news. I have scrupulously carried out the recommendations of Thorsten
>Froehlich and others on the list and everything is running very nicely indeed.
>Switching off Virtual Memory and the Preview display made a great difference. The
>progress window works properly and closes after a scene is rendered.
>
>I also ran Peek-a-Boo and found out that Norton Utilities Filesaver was hogging an
>awful lot of CPU time during a render, so I switched it off and a further
>improvement in speed was noticed. Naturally I switch it back on before shutting down
>the computer so that Filesaver has a chance to update.
>
>Many thanks Thorsten for your help, especially concerning the switching of the
>Pre-emptive box.
>
>Bob Douglas
>

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