Better Multi-core CPU support
Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2011 3:33 pm
I had terrible times with ASP 8.0.1 crashing during renders until I unchecked the multi-threaded rendering option on the Export Animation window; after that, rendering worked reliably and slowly. BTW, the manual has no mention of this option that I could find. Seems odd that having too many resources available would create trouble but that seems to be what I experienced.
I use a quad-core Intel i7 CPU that runs at 3 Ghz using 64 bit version of Windows 7 Pro; have 12 GB of RAM. So, I was shocked to discover that an application that I bought a few weeks ago apparently could not deal with the 8 threads available in my CPU since multi-core CPUs of 4 or more cores have been around for a while. Based on the rendering window that opens, it appears that ASP 8 can only utilize 4 threads, so a single or dual core CPU would likely not experience this issue. More is apparently not better with this application!
I use a quad-core Intel i7 CPU that runs at 3 Ghz using 64 bit version of Windows 7 Pro; have 12 GB of RAM. So, I was shocked to discover that an application that I bought a few weeks ago apparently could not deal with the 8 threads available in my CPU since multi-core CPUs of 4 or more cores have been around for a while. Based on the rendering window that opens, it appears that ASP 8 can only utilize 4 threads, so a single or dual core CPU would likely not experience this issue. More is apparently not better with this application!