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Subject: Bryce Memory Management Question

Nick_G opened this issue on Sep 26, 2003 · 5 posts
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Nick_G ( ) posted Fri, 26 September 2003 at 11:47 AM · edited Sun, 17 November 2024 at 12:36 AM

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Hello everyone! Been a while since I've posted - work's been a bear. :( Anyways, here's my scenario. I had been working on this image the other night, and, as usual, when I began my render I shut down all unnecessary services and programs running (basically, there wasn't anything running my taskbar), and set Bryce to use Realtime Priority in terms of Memory Management. Then I killed the render because I noticed something wrong, and as I was working on the image, I noticed that movement of objects was extremely slow and clunky. Opening up the Task Manager again showed that Bryce's Priority had been set to Low, as opposed to RealTime. Hmm. I then set it to High and continued to work. After about thirty seconds, back to clunky, so I checked its priority again and it went back to Low. Hmm :(. Finally, I got the object to where it was at least passable for a WIP render, but I'm curious as to what might have caused this. No software was installed between my previous usage of Bryce and this; Machine Specs are P4 2.53 Overclocked to 2.7, 768M Ram, so speed shouldn't be an issue. Anyone have any ideas as to what might have caused this? I'm not sure if I can replicate the problem and even if I could, I'm not sure if I want to, you know? :) If you've got insight, it'd be appreciated. Thanks!! (Image included so you can see that I wasn't doing anything super-processor-intensive...)

shadowdragonlord ( ) posted Fri, 26 September 2003 at 6:55 PM

Aye, this has never happened to me with XP. Maybe you should get a Mac? (BIG joke, that was just a joke my friend!) I'll try to replicate the problem at home and see what happens...

Nick_G ( ) posted Fri, 26 September 2003 at 11:42 PM

Hehe - I've got a mac, just haven't brought it up to speed yet (it's an older machine, only a 350 G3 running 9.2.1.... I rebuilt my machine tonight w/ XP-PRO instead of Home; PRO has much better memory management, so maybe that'll help....

ttops ( ) posted Sat, 27 September 2003 at 5:33 AM

You must leave the task manager open for the priority settings to take affect. Go to Start/Control panel/System/Advanced/Performance settings and change your memory setting to 2.5 of your actual RAM. In your case it will be 1920MB MAX.

Nick_G ( ) posted Sat, 27 September 2003 at 9:59 AM

Oh! I didn't know you had to leave Task Manager open for the settings to take effect. Thanks!! (Learn something new every day).

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