Please change "low thread priority" default setting!

[ben_hamburg]

hey guys,

can you please, please, please change the default render settings to have "low thread priority" ticked?
If there is a good reason for that, please let me know, but for my workstation it measn that whenever I open and test render an old scene, my workstation freezes up for 5-30 minutes for the duration of the testrender, if I forget to tick that before doing a testrender...
Cannot cancel, only way out is to force kill 3ds max.
I have lost so many hours already, where I needed to wait this out, because I didn?t save before rendering...

[Art48]

You can usually do a high priority interrupt by Ctrl+Alt+Del, then start the task manager from there, then you should be able to find the 3dsmax.exe process and you then can right click on it and set a lower priority manually. It's onle valid for the current max session though so, remember to tick it after that :P

[3d-laboratory]

I agree with ben_hamburg. Ctrl-Alt-Del may be a sulution but in my experience it sometime takes also some time until that is recognized by the system. In my opinion it would be better to set the "low thread priotity" to default for convenience in the working process. Also new users can be confused when the system seems to freeze and they don?t know the cause.

[caypiranha]

total agree - low prio is useless, since the machine isn?t work faster at all. would be cool havin gthis as default ( but anyways guys - if you save your predefined Rendersettings as default - it?s also there - unless you haven?t forget to switch it on)

[ben_hamburg]

I dunno if this would even fix the issue of old scenes being saved with old settings - I can remember setting it for new scenes and saving it with my maxstart scene, but to always remember it for every old scene I open is just a pain....

[vlado]

can you please, please, please change the default render settings to have "low thread priority" ticked?

Yes, already done for the official V-Ray Next.

You can also save your own default V-Ray settings by saving a V-Ray preset with the name "default" (without the quotes).

Best regards,
Vlado

[ben_hamburg]

Hey Vlado, thanks for the input, I just saved a new default, but the problem seems to persist with old scenes, saved with different settings. I´ll probably get used to checking that checkbox at some point, but until then:
Is there a way to add the default settings to a file open script? I recently got the tip of using a script to replace CTRL+O to my files in silent mode, to get rid of all the annoying gamma/units/oldvray popups and It would be great, if could just add a line of code to also load the default settings with low thread priority checked to that.
I´m still super bad at scripting, or I would just do that myself...

[vlado]

Well, for V-Ray Next, we always use low priority in an interactive session, regardless of any value saved with the scene (and the option is gone from the UI too).

Best regards,
Vlado

[JezUK]

Well, for V-Ray Next, we always use low priority in an interactive session, regardless of any value saved with the scene (and the option is gone from the UI too).

Best regards,
Vlado

Vlado,

I'm confused with Low Thread Priority checkbox.

Why is it no longer there in the UI ?

My machine now gets totally frozen during rendering, and I've no way of preventing that in the UI.

[Art48]

Please do not get rid of that checkbox! Defaulting to enabled when interactive rendering is fine, but I often use it when production rendering and doing some other stuff on the PC at the same time. We need to be able to influence the low prio behaviour! And I don't wanna go into task manager to do that all the time.