System - MB ASUS-P4T-533-C P4 2.53-533FSB 512-1066 RamBus Win XP Pro - NTFS actual render size at production rendering all options selected took 8.5 min. Hope images is attached new at this. Question my paging file virtual memory is set at max 1156mb when doing some renders systems locks up. Mini dump error. Any ideas on how to fix? lostcar

Right-click My Computer, select Properties, click the Advanced tab, click Performance Options, and then look for Virtual Memory and hit the Change button. That's it right there. I'd suggest making the page file one size (1156-1156 for example instead of 512-1156 or whatever it set it to when you installed), but whatever you choose, a set size is better. Also, if you have multiple hard drives, putting the page file on a drive that the OS isn't installed to can speed things up a tad. As is, that should be large enough, but I don't have P5 yet and don't know how big of a memory hog it is. Good luck. :) Nice render, by the way.

Oops, should have mentioned that's how you do it in 2k, but it's probably reasonably close to how you do it in XP. Sorry.

Whoop: yes its similar in xp and i suggest a fixed size too!

I did the above as instructed.. question, what does this do exactly? also, I have two hard drives, one is my c: (os installed on it) the other is split into two (it's an 80) I have the option to make this setting to all three drives.. is this something I should do, or just make the settings on the one hard drive?

hope that made sense.. thanks for the tip!

Mystic

mystic...basically setting the page file to a single size keeps all of it together in one spot on the disk. If you have the time, it may be worth it to disable the page file completely, reboot, defrag, set the file to whatever size you want, and reboot again. This'll more or less guarantee that the space set aside for the page file is contiguous, which'll mean less clunking around as the disk tries to find/swap the data. Putting it on another drive (i.e. on your non-os drive) reduces the work load for that drive. If you can put it on another IDE chain that's even better (i.e. primary and secondary), but we're really getting into nit-picky things about maximum performance, which with the latest hardware that's available, is pretty much negligible. lostcar: did that help at all?

First thing I did with new PC was set VM to max 1156mb then paging file both on same drive C are the same. Still get mini dump error on some larger renders mostly after fooling around with other renders. Anyway to clear paging file or virtual memory without closing down PC or Poser ? Or should I enlarge both VM and Paging File? Thanks for help.