Low Thread Priority not working ?

[kein_plan]

@morbid angel
i don´t know, if that will work. i tried to set the priority below normal with the task manager. but this has no effekt.

[natty]

@morbid angel
i don´t know, if that will work. i tried to set the priority below normal with the task manager. but this has no effekt.

Same here, no affect! ..

[lightpixel]

here the same problem for me. I have no chance to solve the problem...
even DR doesnt work...seems the whole workstation freezes.
One think I noticed:
If I start a rendering (really huge scene!!) saved in max 2009 and opened in
2010 the rendering work perfect without any freezes and all DR capabilities...

can somebody confirm this??

regards
chris

[kein_plan]

sorry chris, i can´t confirm your post. my scenes thant won´t work are 2009 scenes. but i tried some other new scenes created only in 2010 that work fine... i don´t know why, but it seems to be a problem with the content of the scenes...

[RErender]

Might try merging a slow scene into a new one.

[lightpixel]

hy eric,

merging the scene in a new file was the first thing, I did!
no success! Today I reinstalled me workstation complete, new installation of
OS (winxp x64) new installation of max 2010.... no success!!!
I must be a bug inside 3dsmax... btw: there is also till yet no maxtreme or performance
driver for 3ds max 2010...It´s a shame! my fx quadro card seems to be useless.

best regards
chris (little bit frustrated)

[stevesideas]

Is this happening on all i7 systems. It happens on mine and definately means that it is more to do with the i7 cpu than max. I just set the affinity on 3dsmax to 7 threads. This does however happen randomly and so I dont always have to.

[plastic_]

well it doesn't happen on my i7 920 system.

my mainboard: gigabyte EX58-DS4

vista 64

[stevesideas]

I use winxp64. Are others experiencing this with this os ?

[ruud3dv]

I'm experiencing the same on winxp64, but now on 3ds Max 2009 sp1 x64 with vray 1.5 sp3a too.

Workstation AND DR-nodes are extremely unresponsive, this is an efficiency killer, can't do anything unless i uncheck a core for 3dsmax.exe in 'Affinity' in taskmanager.

This is, btw, after installing 3ds max 2010 x64 on workstation and DR-nodes...
Will try uninstalling 2010 and repost.

[wxyz]

Not a problem here with an i7 and Vista 64

[Sascha Selent]

XP 32 bit here...

I noticed a problem with max 2010 when it starts up maximized. If so on my machine the "Graphite Modelling Tools"-toolbar is not displayed and one core is in use 100%.

I have to "Restore Down" the Max-window, then the toolbar is displayed and the core stops struggeling.

After that I can maximize back, the toolbar remains...

...maybe this might cause problems on your machines too?

Sascha

[ruud3dv]

Alright, this is where it gets weird...

With an unresponsive system now even when rendering in 3ds max 2009, i deinstalled 2010 from my workstation and now while rendering i have a responsive system again.

The DR-nodes still have 2010 installed (not running, not even the mental ray service nor a vray spawner for 2010) and they still seem to 'hang' when they are rendering a scene from the workstation. I'll uninstall 2010 from those nodes as well.

Looks like Autodesk really outperformed itself this time: not just messing up a new release, but also crippling older versions with it...

Btw: to illustrate the unresponsiveness, when my server was DR-rendering it was so unresponsive that other DR-nodes sometimes couldn't even get a Vray-license from it in time.

[GLASS-CANVAS]

i dont have max 2010...about the thread priority, you could use a temporary solution (I use it all the time)
you can create a maxstart.bat file in which you can put a line "start /belownormal 3dsmax.exe" without the quotes.
This will auto set 3ds max and any processes spawned by 3ds max in below normal thread state, thus relieving the stress from your system rendering.

this looks like a great solution, and would save me loads of time as i'm always having to manually do this in the task manager. one problem though - I can't seem to get this to work on XPx64. Are you using Vista by any chance? If so i'm guessing the command 'start' doesn't exist in XPx64. Or maybe i'm just being thick?

would be great if you could paste in the batch file text you use to launch max with