softcris opened this issue on May 27, 2008 ยท 18 posts
arcebus posted Sat, 31 May 2008 at 3:27 PM
Queue rendering worthless? Kidding, hm!?!?
Even if you are working with just 1 machine (which happens sometimes when my other ones are busy with other stuff), the queue is the one thing that gave me an occasion to sleep back.
SImply set up what I need - let's say 10 different files (even 21 Megapix for poster prints, no problem), save the files. Before going to bed, load/put to queue one after the other and let the queue work for you.
Works fine with any number of machines from 1 to 4 (haven't got any more) and even if in stills the full advantage of distributed rendering won't come out (yet), I find my stuff when I arrive in the office in the morning. After some sleeping!!
4 comps, each Q6600 @ 3,something GHz (differs), 8 GB Ram each, ATI 3850/1GB, a Western Digital Raptor system disc and a changing number of space-providing HDDs. XP64 and Poser Pro on one machine. XP64 and the Queue Renderer appl. on all other, GBit network (which isn't the point, 10/100 works as well).