Active Window Priority? A:M not rendering at full speed

[Rodney]

I may just be trying to run too many things simultaneously but I don't recall experiencing this before.

 

When I start a render and then open another window (such as for browsing the forum) A:M appears to stop rendering and waits until I return to start rendering again. Looking closer, the renderer doesn't seem to be completely stopping but seems to slow down considerably.

 

I'd guess I've told Windows somewhere to give the active window full priority but... not sure where and when I would have set that.

 

Any leads will be appreciated.

[robcat2075]

What version of Windows? And do you have more than one core?

[Rodney]

On this laptop I'm running Windows Vista with (I think) 2 cores.

[robcat2075]

You might get up the "Resource Monitor" and look at the CPU tab while you have A:M runningin the backgroudn and your other app in front of it and see if it really is getting shortchanged.

 

 

I have four core so mine shows A:M at 25% when it's rendering. I presume yours should show 50%?

 

 

Is it possible your laptop has some powersaving feature enabled that cuts background tasks? There may be a setting that forces it to run as if it were a desktop and not a battery powered laptop.

[Rodney]

Thanks Robert. Nothing seems out of place there but I'll keep looking around.

This may just inspire me to move me toward implementing a Netrender workflow so that may work out for the better.

By the time I get there this problem will probably have fixed itself.