Computer Slowdown after Rendering or Print to Tape

wcoxe1 wrote on 10/10/2002, 9:03 AM
Just curious> Has anyone else noticed that their computer dramatically slows down after leaving VV3 if you have rendered a project or printed video to tape? Mine is so slow that I just reboot it to recover. Quite noticable. Every time, too. No problems other than it is so slow as to be REALLY annoying.

It doesn't happen if I only prerender sections, only if it is a major project. Also, the same slowdown happens after I defrag. I have to reboot then, too.

Using 2000 Professional

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Tyler.Durden wrote on 10/10/2002, 9:32 AM
Hi William,

You might try checking your windows temp directory(ies) and INF directories for bogus files.

This has helped me overcome hangs and slowdowns in other systems.

It sounds like a system issue (maybe even a mem-leak), since it occurs after defrag too.

HTH, MPH
wcoxe1 wrote on 10/10/2002, 10:45 AM
Those were my ideas, also. But following that line of thought, even bringing in two techs, has produced no improvement. We delete everything from the TMP directory and such, but to no avail. Have found no evidence, other than the slowdown, of mem leak.
HardWare wrote on 10/10/2002, 11:00 AM
Hey there, i've experienced the same, and also with a game called Morrowind all i do is defrag the HD and it comes back as it was. Unfortunatly i have no clue what so ever why this hapens.
Cheers
wcoxe1 wrote on 10/10/2002, 6:53 PM
Interesting. But, as I mentioned, defragging can cause it to slow down. In fact, I have three different computers I use during a typical day. ALL of them slow down some after a defrag. Rebooting speeds things back up. Only one of these computers has VV on it, and after an extensive render it is VERY, VERY, VERY slow, until I reboot. It has gotten to be routine. I come in in the morning, after a night rendering, and I save and then reboot. Works every time, but rather odd.
sqblz wrote on 10/11/2002, 4:30 AM
wcoxe1, I don't know what operating system you are using, but maybe you can use some of my hints.

I use win98-2. In my autoexec.bat I have a command to deltree + rebuild the Window Temporary Folder. In the same way I also delete the Temp Internet Folder *and* the swapfile.
I have 512MB DRAM memory (I mean, my PC has <G>) . My swapfile is variable and lies in a 1 GB partition used for not much else. This way I guarantee that I have Swap and Temp files always fresh and as defragmented as possible.

It helped me. Good luck.
wcoxe1 wrote on 10/11/2002, 9:25 AM
Thank you for your suggestions. We implemented that sort of tactic on all the computers here some years ago. So, although it sounds fine, it doesn't help in my situation.
briand wrote on 10/11/2002, 7:19 PM
When you say "saw no evidence of mem leak" I'm assuming you're already watching your performance monitor for memory usage during and after the rendering. If not, here goes:

Anytime before or after you have Vegas up, right click an empty space on your task bar (or hit ctrl-alt-del) and pick "Task Manager", then flip over to the "performance" tab. Here you can watch CPU load, but more importantly you can also watch swap and physical memory usage. Watch the page file use crank up while you render, and then see if things drop back down to their pre-render state after you finish and/or close Vegas. It often doesn't quite return to the original state (Windows swapping is often cautious and doesn't do anything right away) but things should drop back down pretty quick, and pretty far. Task manager also lets you watch memory usage on individual apps from the "processes" tab, you can click the "mem usage" header to sort by memory footprint and see what's hogging all the space...

Since this happens during defrag too, it sounds more like a disk issue (which could still mean swap space). If you have anything less than 20% free space on your OS drive, do some house cleaning.