I have finished building the new computer and trying to set up network rendering.  Have a few questions...

1.  The rendercow program is installed on each cow.  According to the manual I also need to install it on my computer that runs Vue 5 Infinite.  If yes, does this count as 1 of the 5 cows?

2.  Autoscan - what is this doing?  I pressed it and it started giving me a list of hundreds of ports, all of them disconnected.  I though this would only find available cows?

3.  Does having one slow cow reduce the overall render time?  Out of the 4 computers I have available, one is a rather old P3. 

4.  Can I use the computers that are rendering for other programs, or does the rendering take 100% of the processor time?

Thanks!

Peggy

 

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