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network rendering with different windows versions?
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 6:29 pm
by raja
Hello,
I might end up with computers with different windows versions.
Would it be possible to network-render using 2 computers, one with Windows-7 64bit and other Windows-XP 64 bit?
regards,
raja
Re: network rendering with different windows versions?
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 6:33 pm
by brodie_geers
Should be fine. I have a workstation on Win7 and a node on a server running Windows Server 2008 or some such thing. However, I would say that it just adds one more issue to network rendering which seems to be tenuous in Maxwell as is (in my experience).
-Brodie
Re: network rendering with different windows versions?
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 6:37 pm
by fuso
Hi raja,
I am currently rendering using a similar setup and it works fine. I've got 8 PC's on Windows7 and 2 PC's still on WinXP 32bit.
No problems here whatsoever, even in cooperative mode. Best of luck with the other network issues though...
Re: network rendering with different windows versions?
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 6:44 pm
by raja
ok! phew!
atleast its possible, otherwise i would have had to purchase windows upgrade just for this.
thanks Brodie and Fuso.
raja
Re: network rendering with different windows versions?
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2011 11:39 am
by kami
theoretically you could even mix windows and mac machines, right?
although it did not work for me, but the network render isn't working as expected here.
Re: network rendering with different windows versions?
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 1:20 am
by wfstecko
I have a Mac that's dual booting Mac OS X and Windows 7 64 bit. With either one I'm able to use my Windows XP 32 bit machine as a render node.
Walter
Re: network rendering with different windows versions?
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 9:19 pm
by dubir
for me it was not good to mix OS 32 and 64