Photoworks release 2

Hi guys
A small problem here, and it might have been discussed before ....I've been
rendering one heavy layout today ...a lot of pipes and round stuff. Tried
it on two different machines both with 2 gigs of ram ...with two different
results. The workstation, a Dell 530 with a Quadro4 900XGL and dual
processors, 2x2,8 GHz Xeon on Win 2K SW 2003 SP4 ....and the laptop with
Quadro FX Go700 Pentium M 1,7 GHz on XP Pro...SW 2003 SP3.1. The workstation
chokes all the time and sais I have to free som more memory....looking at
the task manager I'm using 1,2-1,3Gb.....think it peaked 1,5 something
The laptop sais nothing ....it just render the damned thing and here I'm
using 720-750MB
Using the workstation I have all files on the server....using the laptop I
have all files stored in a "briefcase" on the local harddrive.
I have'nt clocked the rendering but it feels like they both do it in roughly
the same amount of time
Where should I look first....is this a processor issue or an OS issue....is
XP handeling memory better than 2K, or is it a combination........or is it
something else?

Krister

 

Make sure when you load the assembly that you don't have lightweight parts.
There was or is a memory leak issue with PW2 and lightweight parts.

 

Thanks Jeff

but ....You can't render without resolving the lightweight parts so I guess
that's not the problem...and both computer are set the same when it comes to
SW.....the assy is actually loded with lightweight parts on on both but
after that resolved and rendered

Krister

 

If you have PW2 already loaded and open an assembly in lightweight the leak
begins when opening it. Watch your task manager. You could be losing
critical MBs of RAM from the time you click OK to open it to the time you
set lightweight parts to resolved. And no, the memory is not released. This
could be fixed in SP4, though I never tested it.