affinity issue...

V-Ray V-Ray for 3ds Max Issues
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i know this is (or was…) a known max problem in the past, but i’m getting it again.
one minute i’m rendering fine on all 8 cores, the next time i hit render i’m down to one core - the only solution seems to be shut down viz and start again and it’ll be fine (for a while…)

this used to happen all the time on my old dual xeon workstation but i could set the affinity in task manager - now i can’t even do that! (access denied, although i am admin…think that’s a vista issue)

just wondered if anybody else was having similar problems?

cheers!

workstation spec:
dual 5345 quad xeon’s
tyan i5000xt mobo
4gb ram
vista business 64
vray1.5
viz2008

p.s. feel free to move this to off topic if it shouldn’t be in the vray problems section…

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Are you sure you have not accidentally turned off multithreading in the 3ds Max Preferences (sometimes this turns off by itself…)

Best regards,
Vlado

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thanks for the suggestion vlado - i’ll check that the next time it happens.

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hi. i’ve had this issue again recently and checked the multithreading but it was still on. strange…