[giacob]

the file was full of polygons ( trees leaf) and there where many emitter ( lightingt) because it was at dusk.. but is seems too much to me

[pluMmet]

How many polys and what are your system specs?

[giacob]

Num Meshes: 745
Num Triangles: 3028235
Num Vertexes: 5578097
Num Normals: 5570255

pentium 4 3 gh ht - 1 gb raM


RESOLUTION : 1167 X 2500

[giacob]

WHICH SURPRISE ME MUCH:
CPU 4%!!!
PAGING FILE 1,98 GB
(caps by mistake)

[pluMmet]

a paging file of 1.98 gig is huge...someone else will have to help you. I'm not sure enough about M~R to answer except to say that you are using the 1.2.2a Beta right?

[giacob]

latest maxweel versione.. yes

[Mihai]

You don't have enought ram, your system is going to the hd, so ofcourse your render will take a lot longer. Maybe try the -hd option see if that helps.

[giacob]

how much ram is adiveceable? 2 gb is enough?

[Aldaryn]

2GIGS seem to be the minimum. I also had hard times with my memory, so upgrade as sooon as possible.
Meanwhile, use that MW is a standalone, and shut down everything while rendering, and use the -hd option.

[giacob]

once acquired more memory u have to set up winXP to read it.. havent u?
how to do that?

[Maxer]

Windows won't see anything above 2 Gig unless you use the 3 gig switch which doesn’t work with every system. If you can get your hands on the new 64 bit version of Windows and are brave enough to try it I think it supports up to 16 gigs of ram.

[zoppo]

giacob - up to 2gig you don't have to set up anything. only if you want to use more you have to follow maxer's instructions.