is it just me, or is it that bryce wont render unless its the top window??? am i an idiot 4 never realizing this? usually ill let bryce render while i work in another program, or have i been a dummy all these years????

my experience has been that bryce will render even when it's minimized while you're running other programs, but the more computer resources you use up while doing other things, the slower bryce renders. LIke trying to work long division in your head while writing down the lyrics to your favorite song. It can be done [I suppose, not by me :o)], but it's gonna take longer. I run a 500 P3, with 128 MB ram, and I can render just fine while checking e-mail, word processing, etc. but if I start trying to do something intensive, like in photoshop, then everything slows down. alright, r'osity vets, am I close?

i know about the slowdown, but it stops rendering all together................ follow? if im not looking, its not rendering. whats up w/ that???? this seems new... i dont remember it doing this b4..........

i'm pretty sure it stops altogether unless you render to disc

On my Mac, as long as I have enough RAM, Bryce will render in the background at the same speed it does in the foreground. I multitask all the time with Bryce and Photoshop running at the same time, no problems.

If I minimize my Bryce 4 while rendering, it stops. If I leave the window open, but go into my browser or another programme, it continues to render, but slower. Minimizing by accident has ruined very long renders in progress. :(

No problems on my PC! Have a Athlon 1 Ghz with 512 mb RAM and winXP Pro, and can easily run games, utilities or browse around without any problems what so ever. Had no problems with win98 either but XP is more stable.

I don't have any problems like this, ar you sure your computer isn't just renderig that slow that you don't really see much changes after some time (like when rendering four different brycescenes at the same time)? But I never minimize bryce. I always leave the window open. Maybe that's the reason I haven't encountered your problem.

When I render 2 scenes at the same time, only one scene (the top one) will render at near normal speed. The other one renders really slowly, but it does render (not stop). I got a p3 450 with 320RAM. I also seem to be able to swap between apps and not have a problem with it stopping.

When I took my Bryce beginner's class, the instructor told us that using Ctrl-M while Bryce is rendering to switch to another window will keep the rendering going at the same pace. Don't know if this is true for B4 as well as B5. Does anyone have any experience with that? If it works, I haven't been successful with it myself.

MAC OSX is like XP in that i can start a long Bryce render Hit "command+ H "to hide bryce
and safely move on to other tasks and let bryce
render away in its own protected memory space.

MAC OSX is like XP in that i can start a long Bryce render Hit "command+ H "to hide bryce
and safely move on to other tasks and let bryce
render away in its own protected memory space.

MAC OSX is like XP in that i can start a long Bryce render Hit "command+ H "to hide bryce
and safely move on to other tasks and let bryce
render away in its own protected memory space.

I have Win98SE with 900 MHz, 384 MB RAM and I can minimize it and it keeps rendering fine with no slowdown. (of course I don't have any CPU intensive programs running either.

I tried it and my computer renders fine too when minimized. As for rendering multiple scenes at the same time Flak is right only the bryce on top renders at a (bryce)fast speed.