Any advice on optimizing a Windows 10 PC for Firefly renders?

I am not a fan of Superfly. Yet.

However, I am pushing FireFly to get hi-res renders. The CPU is maxing out 100%, and memory too. I have Poser set to use 6 cores and render in background.

Computer has an ordinary SATA hard drive, but an "Optane" 1GB optimizer.

There is no graphics card in the computer, only that which is on the motherboard, Intel UHD Graphics 630 with 1GB memory

1. Does Firefly use the GPU on a graphics card for rendering?

I'm planning a memory upgrade .....

1. will Firefly take advantage of as much RAM as installed?

2. what about virtual memory and page file settings? (see below)

Dell Inc. Inspiron 3670 x64-based PC Microsoft Windows 10 Home Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz, 2808 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 6 Logical Processor(s) BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. 1.0.0, 3/6/2018 Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB Total Physical Memory 7.84 GB Available Physical Memory 2.98 GB Total Virtual Memory 9.40 GB Available Virtual Memory 2.33 GB Page File Space 1.56 GB

Thanks for any tips,

::::: Opera :::::

Hi, Operaguy.

First ting I can recommend is a graphics card with at least a couple gigabytes of memory built into it. Try doubling your onboard ram as well. 8Gb might be insufficient as Poser in itself is resource-hoggy and does use alot of RAM. Increas your RAM to at least 12 Gb if not 16 Gb. Definitely increase your paging file size and you can set your virtual memory size to about double the amount of RAM you have onboard. Take these few steps and let us know of your progress and the improvements they offer.

Firefly only uses the CPU for rendering. What you want is the most RAM you can get so as to avoid the program from using Virtual Memory, as that will slow things down to a crawl. As an example with RAM you might get 1,000,000,000 memory accesses a second, with Virtual Memory maybe 1,000. That is a big speed difference.

What is the amount of RAM you recommend?

My machines have 16GB, however if you can and your machine can support it 32GB will basically ensure you won't run into an issue. Of course it comes down to the size of the image the number of figures and sizes of textures.

Thanks. I currently have 16 Gb Onboard. I might try in the not-so-distant future increasing that to 32 Gb & see what kind of improvements in render speed that offers.