Use all CPU power?

[MadMike]

I wondered if anyone knew a way or a program that can fully use all the
cpu's power, esspecally when rendering?

A typical time when rendering , my CPU is being about 40% used. Could this
be because of my graphics card?

any help would be appreciated.
Ps
i have a K6-2 400Mhz processor and a 3Dfx Voodoo 3 2000.

MadMike

[Jim Canuel]

How much RAM do you have? Is the system possible being forced to use the
swap file heavilly?

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[MadMike]

128Mb
400Mhz K6-2
3Dfx Voodoo 3 2000

Its not doing any work, the hdd LED dont flash.
it basically takes its time.

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>I wondered if anyone knew a way or a program that can fully use all the
>cpu's power, esspecally when rendering?

Studio Max 3.1 w/256MB RAM, using Quadro2 Pro, maxes out both my
processors to 100% when rendering under Win2K. Both processors running
542Mhz soon to upgraded to 833's or better.

There are no special settings set other than using Nvidia Opengl or
Maxtreme drivers but I figured full CPU usage was a given considering
the SMP capability of Max and Win2K.

[John Ings]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 23:23:20 GMT, reply-bot <sys...@the.matrix.com>
wrote:

>>I wondered if anyone knew a way or a program that can fully use all the
>>cpu's power, esspecally when rendering?

> I figured full CPU usage was a given considering

>the SMP capability of Max and Win2K.

Another factor is the speed of your backplane.

Also, simple scenes only use about 50%.
It takes a complex scene to push the CPUs above that.