Low thread priority(anyone found a workaround yet?)

[Billabong]

I was wondering if anyone has found a fix or workaround for this yet. When rendering anything, My comp is pretty much useless.

 

Ive got low thread priority ticked and I set the priority in the windows task manager to below normal.I also created that script in Ken Pinmental's blog, which doesn't help either

 

I was just hoping that maybe someone found a workaround.

 

Thanks for any input

 

-B

[BrianKitts]

right click on the 3dsmax process in your task manager and select "set affinity" and turn off one of the processors.

 

that will free it up to do other stuff while the rest of your cores crunch on max stuff.

[Billabong]

Thank you so much Brian

 

-B

[amer abidi]

Yup, I always set one processor (of 8) free so i can continue working normally on my workstation while rendering.

[Jimy]

Yeah I do the same. Always run Max and/ or rendering at below normal priority and this frees up most things; apart from compositing software. I find that I too have to set affinity to minus 1 core to get Nuke to render even a single frame.

 

The setting affinity is also great if you're in a render crunch and you can "donate" cores to the farm while you work, as general modeling etc only takes 1 core. You can also have 2 instances of Max running and split your cores between them (depending on your RAM).

 

It's magic!