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# 16 31-05-2010 , 09:15 PM

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Im crushed stwert!!! bahahah no worries mate!!! as long as the problem can be sorted man, I know what its like trying to figure stuff out. Try doing a 4000 point pickup (map) of street scapes and downloading the RAW data and finding after 6 days there is a 30m vertical jump in half of it!!!! 6 days of walking through streets and bush and no one knows why!

Or doing a 265 point pickup walking across sand dunes and downloading the RAW data and 70% of it is in one spot!!! Even the GPS data hasnt moved BUT the pointer was moving on the screen as you were walking!!! $10 000 dollars of PDA and software and NO ONE from Carlson knows why!

bahahahah gster, nothing wrong with XP.

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# 17 01-06-2010 , 01:58 AM

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swert, Sleep timer running out at end of a frame wouldn't cause hibernation or sleep either one, Has to be idle for x number of minutes before sleep overtakes the computer, Kinda like us, we have to be sitting still and relaxed for certain amount of time, same principle.

far as a brown out, its possible, if your house didn't lose power but wasn't getting the full amount power, it would cause something similar to running a computer that Has a PSU that's in adequate and would run un stable ( Theoretically.

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# 18 31-01-2014 , 02:56 PM

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So I had a funny (and frustrating) encounter today. Set up my first overnight render on my work computer last night and came in this morning to see it had gone to sleep and paused my render just 15 minutes after I started it (and my "go to sleep" settings are set to 15 min), but this should not happen because the computer is not inactive.

I thought to myself, this has never happened to me before, and proceeded to do some searching online. Sure enough, I find this thread from 4 years ago where I complain about the exact same thing. Facepalm. It hasn't happened that I'm aware of in the intermediate 4 years, so I don't know if I fixed something or it was a random occurance.

I did a little test on the current render, letting it go to sleep. This time it took 30 minutes, but the computer went to sleep, pausing the render (but not killing it).
Windows 7 x64.

Anyone else had this happen at some point?

Hibernate is disabled and it still does this, by the way.

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# 19 31-01-2014 , 09:08 PM

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Hi Stwert, Yeah, I've had this happen too. It can cause problems with major downloading from the web as well if it goes to sleep in the middle of it.

I'm using windows 7x64 as well and the way to get round the problem is before you do an overnight render go to Control Panel > Power Options and on the left hand side pick Change When the Computer Sleeps in there you can set your sleep and display settings to never and it should fix the problem.

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# 20 31-01-2014 , 09:10 PM

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Yeah, that's what I've done, but it seems like a poor workaround. It shouldn't be sleeping in the first place, and ideally it would go to sleep once it's done rendering.

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# 21 31-01-2014 , 09:30 PM

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I have had this happen on windows 7 before.
Really annoying when your'e hyped up to see what you've left rendering all night.
I changed the same setting as mr.yeti says, and never had the problem since.
Was very odd as you assume your computer wouldn't confuse processing a heavy render as being 'idle'.

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