Problems with ts6.6 & new pc 2004-03-29 - By Visual Impact
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Thanks Mike,
Yes it seems like hyperthreading might be causing alot of the problems
from what I read on the forums.
John
Mike Wilson wrote:
> John,
>
> I cant say anything about your crashes as we need info - like when/how.
> What are you doing when they happen (point edit/ animating/ texturing/
> rendering etc. Are you experiencing similar problems with other software
> on your machine. Also have a search of the caligari forums
> (forum.caligari.com), there a lot of problems, solutions and work arounds
> that have been discussed there. It is quite possible that your specific
> crashes have been documented on there already.
>
> With regard to your rendering issues make sure you have multi-threading
> turned off when rendering from ts. There seem to be some issues with
> rendering in this mode. For a start tS is often faster rendering single
> threaded. Ts and the render engine were written before
> hyper-threading, so
> things aren't optimised for this. With regard to the rendering artifacts,
> it seems that most of the problems that I have experienced are with 3rd
> party plugin shaders, although some of the built in ones don't always
> perform as they should. There also seem to be some issues relating to
> multi-layered textures as well. There are also some plugins that
> actually
> crash truespace when rendering in multi-threaded mode.
>
> I realise this isn't necessarily good news, but it should help you to get
> more out of tS
>
> Mike
>
>
> Mike Wilson
> Sound Engineer
>
> email: mike@(protected)
> tel: +44 (0) 7976 440 190
> mail: 80 Erleigh Road, Reading, RG1 5NJ
>
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