Multi-Task During Rendering

[snapware]

Does anybody do it?

I usually keep firefox and Word open and still work while I render, thoughts?

[edDV]

I've never had a problem multitasking during rendering or encoding.

Multitasking can cause problems during video capture or DV stream import-export.

[unclebud]

No problem, it may slow down rendering though. I've burnt CD's and DVD's while rendering, usually at half speed. No problem.

[SLK001]

If your rendering isn't of a real-time capture, it is just another program that pushes and pops stuff on and off the stack and gives processing to something else. It can slow other programs down to the point where they are irritating to use, 'though.

[jagabo]

If your rendering isn't of a real-time capture, it is just another program that pushes and pops stuff on and off the stack and gives processing to something else. It can slow other programs down to the point where they are irritating to use, 'though.

Lower the priority of the rendering task and it will hardly effect forground tasks at all. I frequently have VirtualDub or TMPGEnc running at idle priority while doing other things.

[greymalkin]

this is comical..bringing up the stack :P...shhhhhh! didn't you read in your book about abstraction?


..menial tasks...that's all i would do when encoding...it's going to take every spare bit of cpu time it can and wouldn't you hate to sit there for hours only to find out that a couple frames got garbled up while you tried to play your online game

[harley2ride]

To sum it all up, can you do it, the answer is YES. Should you do it, the answer is I wouldn't... It may work okay most of the time, but why tempt fate... I do it if I'm just working with one of my own projects, but if I'm doing something for a customer, I run only what is necessary.

[olyteddy]

It depends on the rendering program. CDEx and LAME play fair, and listen for processor requests. uLead doesn't, so it's not worth having to wait to swap tasks.

[jagabo]

It depends on the rendering program. CDEx and LAME play fair, and listen for processor requests. uLead doesn't, so it's not worth having to wait to swap tasks.

Bring up Task Manager and lower uleads priority.

[EAO]

Your 3500+ is fast enough to render and surf or render and word... assuming you have an avg amount of background tasks. On word I would also turn off auto save.

Task priority may help some but can cause system instability if you're not careful.

You have a good chip. I had that cpu before upgrading to the X2 3800+. (Now overclocked it to 2500mhz) Now I easily multitask with the X2...even at stock speeds. I will never go back to single core - by choice - again.

I have run DVDfab Decrypter and played HL2 at the same time.
I've also run TMPGenc Plus and played games while also downloading.
I can remember one time when I was rendering and the anti-virus kicked on while I was surfing. I didn't notice it until I hopped offline and saw that it was done.

Yes multi tasking still slows down my rendering time but it's not too bad... unless I start to render 2 different files at the same time with 2 different programs. No stuttering but slow. Now... when are quad cores coming out?