Rendering....dumb question....

Stiffler wrote on 4/4/2002, 1:50 AM

While I am rendering my project, can you multi-task (ie: check for your answer, surf, play solitare)?

The reason I ask: I've heard you shouldn't do anything when you are burning an audio disk, otherwise every little 'ding' and computer sounds will play back on your CD.

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laz wrote on 4/4/2002, 5:08 AM

I have just seen your posting on VW forum. You have a great sense of humour so I'm not sure if you're joshing me. If not here goes - rendering takes up all spare ram, and will render as much as the amount of available ram will allow it. I turn off everything when I render, even anti-virus, firewall, any schedulars etc.

Chienworks wrote on 4/4/2002, 6:50 AM

Ummmm, rendering and burning to CD are two separate operations. You can do just about anything you want with your computer while it's rendering, except maybe turn it off. All you'll do is slow down the speed of the render, but the final output won't be affected at all. When burning to CD, the reason to not do other things while burning is because this is a time sensitive process. If the computer can't sent information to the CD burner fast enough, the disc may be ruined from the dreaded "buffer underrun" error. However, even if you do do other things, there is absolutely no way that sounds created by your computer during this process can get onto the CD.

Former user wrote on 4/4/2002, 7:43 AM

I often will do other stuff while rendering. I have surfed, ran other programs, etc. This just slows down the rendering a bit. Now I wouldn't do this while burning the CD for the reasons Chienworks stated.

Stiffler wrote on 4/4/2002, 11:04 AM

Thanks for the good info. I had to ask, I wans't sure if it would do something to my project while rendering. (No joshin). As for the CD burning part, never happened to me, just something somone told me.

Hammer45 wrote on 4/9/2002, 1:11 AM

Uhmm... I don't mean to be contrary, but I don't believe rendering takes ALL available spare memory. I have run the Task Manager while sending a file to be rendered, and although it takes a significant jump there is still memory left over. Probably depends on the amount of installed memory, however (I am running 640 MBs - in truth, I can simultaneously run every program I have and still only use 400 MBs).

For what it's worth, I also recommend a dual-processor setup. VF2 is multi-threaded and does definitely take advantage of it.