Hello.
I would like to use a separate PC for rendering other than the one I am running VUE 6 Infinite on.  I thought All I had to do was to run the following program on the render PC:

RenderCow Setup.exe

But after running it nothing appears to happen on the additoinal PC.  I don't see any new processes or programs listed in the program groups. This additional PC is a Windows 7 64bit PC.  Will the RenderCow installation work on that operating system?  What else do I need to do to prepare the additional PC? Am I supposed to see something on the additional PC that indicates it will be used for rendering?

Okay I found out what the problem was.  You can't just copy the RenderCow Setup.exe to a thumb drive and run it on the extra computer, which is what I did because I don't have a CD, I only have the downloaded version of Vue 6.  So, I had to share the folder that had the Vue 6 install files from the download and then run the RenderCow Setup.exe file from the extra PC.

Well although I got the program installed and running it does not appear to be running properly.  I started a render job.  The HyperVue Manager PC shows that it is "Sending scene..." and the rendercow PC shows "Receiving" but that is all.  The render never starts.  I tried lossening up on several firewall settings but no luck.  Anyone have any suggestions?

I have now openned a support issue at Vue Tech support.  Below are more details of this problem:

Hello, I have an extra PC running Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit. I have installed the rendercow software on the extra pc and it is running. I have added it to the HyperVue Network Manager running on my main PC which has Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit. When I added the rendercow PC, I used its IP Addess instead of name.  The port number has been set to the same on both the rendercow pc and the main pc.  After adding it the Hypervue Network Manager shows the extra PC with a RenderCow Status of "Idle".  When I go through the Animation render options window I select render which changes the status in the HyperVue Network Rendering Manager to "Sending scene...".  Also, the Batch Rendering window pops up and shows a JOb Type of "Network" and a Status of "Rendering 0.00%".  The extra PC that is supposed to do the rendering shows a rendercow window of "Receiving".  This is as far as everything gets.  Nothing else happens.  What else do I need to do?  I have truned off the fire wall on the extra PC. And I have given full trust to the extra PC on the main PC using Norton Security.

Okay maybe things will work now we will see.  I turned User Account Control off on both PCs and now the 2 PCs are send and receiving render information.  Maybe this will work, I'll have to see

551 frames rendered on the rendercow pc, so it appears to be working.  However, twice I had to restart the render job from where it left off because for no reason the rendercow pc would say "done" and not take any more frames, even though I had a few thousand still to go. The other odd thing was that I had to redo a single frame within a range but the Vue would not let me do it.  I had to redo something like frame number 425 which was not done because I aborted its render on one of the render PCs. When I specified in the animation window to only render 425 to 425 it would show it was rendering something but it never really did number 425.  When all are done I will revisit and try again.  Maybe you can't just do 1 so next time I will tell it to do 425 to 426.

Good to hear that you are making progress. If the render cow says "done" even though its not, it usually means that it somehow lost connection to hypervue. Happens sometime, even though my setup with 1-5 cows is pretty stable in Win7 with Vue 8 and 9.

Regarding the single frame: I haven't tried that yet. But my guess would be that for an animation render you need to specify more than 1 frame.

Ciao

TD