On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:53:08 +0100, "Mortimer" wrote:

"Stuart" wrote in message
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A suggestion - increase you physical RAM to 1 gig and set your virtual
memory to a minimum and maximum of 1.5gig
Should make quite a difference to rendering time. Also don't forget to
defrag your hard drive frequently.

I've increased the RAM to 1 GB - I found some RAM that I'd ordered for a
customer who then decided not to upgrade: I'd forgotten all about it!

Surprisingly the increased RAM doesn't make any difference to the rendering
time.

Nor would I have expected it to - or defragging your HDD which is one
of the biggest white elephants around. It's pure CPU that's holding
you back, as you say - and if it's already maxed out and there's not
another process taking CPU time, then I'm not sure there's much you
can do.

I've always found Pinnacle to be a slow renderer though - even v11
doesn't seem to be properly threaded so as to make use of multi-core
processors.