very slow renders on fast computer

# 1 25-08-2003 , 10:19 PM

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hi all,

i just got a sony vaio that should rip through renders. but when i render either simple or complex scenes it is very slow, like a couple minutes for a 512x512 tga even
with low quality anti-aliasing

i've used both this version of maya (version 4.5) and the same scenes on my older computer and they run much faster.

any ideas?

thanks
jonathan

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# 2 25-08-2003 , 11:24 PM

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What are your exact hardware specs compared to your old machine?

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# 3 25-08-2003 , 11:45 PM

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very slow renders on fast computer

i had a 1000mhz amd with 786 sd ram and a gforce2 video card running windows 2000.

now i've got

2600mhz intel 4 with 512 ddr ram and a gforce4 video card running windows xp.

i'ld guess my old system rendered at least 20 times faster. a weird thing is when i "render current frame" it takes about the same amount of time maybe a little quicker.

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# 4 26-08-2003 , 12:25 AM

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Sounds like maybe a render problem to me....Have you ran diagnostics??? Also check your BIOS for speed settings you may have not set high enough.

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# 5 26-08-2003 , 12:30 AM

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Yeah and try using hardware to render your scenes... the quality will undoubtably be less, however if you are just doing quick renders it should not matter.

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# 6 26-08-2003 , 01:34 AM

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thanks for the suggestions.

nothing turned up in render diagnostic. the bios thing sounds a bit over my head i'ld probably end up reformatting my hard drive or something.

the hardware render works great but the qualities a little low for my portfolio. i guess i can do my final renders over night.

thanks again, any other ideas are welcome.

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# 7 29-08-2003 , 09:38 PM

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Checking your bios should be a piece of cake just hold in f1 or f2

to access your bios b4 your machine loads up the os. You'll see

your cpu clock speed listed and just make sure its the same as

your installed cpu.

o yeah and just make sure if you did need to turn your setting up

you save b4 you exit bios.

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# 8 30-08-2003 , 03:16 AM

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Or press Delete to get into it, or press F8 to get into it, or press F5 to get into it, every motherboard is different, so try lots of combos user added image

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# 9 30-08-2003 , 05:27 AM

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Your new system only has 512 MB of RAM. That's not a lot. You may want to upgrade. RAM is cheap these days.

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# 10 30-08-2003 , 05:41 AM

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Differnce in RAM could change the performance dramatically when you render. When the phisical RAM is not big enough to handle the requirement, it start swapping the data out to harddisk which are very slow compared to the silicon chips speed.

Check your task manager, see whether it start paging for RAM when you render.

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