FancyPants Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 Sorry for the re-post.. thought the last may have gotten lost at the bottom of a long thread.. We have multiple PC's inthe office capable of be access for DR, problem is they all have different number of CPU's some have 2, some 4, some 8. If I dont set this script: renderers.current.system_numThreads=8 The DR machines pop-up with only one bucket regardles of CPU's available. This problem presented itself when we switched to max9. when I run the script, all PC's pop up with 8 buckets. even if it is only a 2 CPU machine. this can cause inneficiency in rendering time. Does any know a solution to get each machine to kick in the appropriate number of buckets in relation to the number of CPU's? I have tried entering a script in the startup folder of each machine telling it to use the correct num of threads (hoping when the spawner launched it would run this on each DR machine), but it didnt seem to work.... Justin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRD Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 Vlado stated in a post on the vray forum that Max 9 defaults to 1 thread when it is opened in silent mode, like when using DR. I think he said he had a work around for the next RC version, which sounds like it's coming fairly soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FancyPants Posted April 27, 2007 Author Share Posted April 27, 2007 cool, thanks for the quick reponse. I wonder if there is a way to run a script when the spawner loads..... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktm07 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 If I dont set this script: renderers.current.system_numThreads=8 Could you tell me where you make this change? In our case, all machines are dual processors. Thanks! Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRD Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 type that line into the Maxscript listener and it will over ride the number of cores used for that particular scene. Then set it to render and it will DR with the number of buckets requested. And I think you will need to enter in that line every time you open the file as it's not permanent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktm07 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Thanks a bunch!! Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parker1 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Looks like another MAX 9 issue Tom... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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