Forum: Vue


Subject: Render Cow Problem

mstnicholas1965 opened this issue on Oct 24, 2008 ยท 2 posts


mstnicholas1965 posted Fri, 24 October 2008 at 12:26 PM

Hello all. Here's a bit of a poser for you. Hopefully someone has a solution to my dilema.
Ok, I have 3 machines with Rendercows installed. 1 is on the same machine as my Vue6 Infinite and the other 2 are on the local network.

Each machine is roughly comparable.

Machine 1 is: 2.1 Ghz Dual-Dual core Opteron w/ 4 gigs of memory running Vista 64.

Machines 2 and 3 are: 2.4 Ghz Quad core Intel w/ 2 gigs of memory running Vista 64.

When I go to render I have all three machines showing up in the network rendering dialog. Once the render begins 1 machine (it's a different machine each time) will do the lions share of work, quickly rendering roughly 90% of the tiles. (say 10 out of 12) The other two machines chug along, struggling to render even one or two tiles each.

Sometimes all three machines gang up on the final tile and although they collectively have a render percentage that exceeds 100% the render never finishes. Any ideas? I await your answers with bated breath.

Michael Tschimperle