Background Images playback Extremely Slow

[Alan Lorence]

Are you saying you disabled hardware acceleration and now it’s very slow? That’s exactly what I would expect.

Or are you saying that when you use 3.0.4 you must disable hardware acceleration in order for it to work?

I don’t think there should be a difference between 3.0 and 3.0.4 in terms of hardware acceleration. If hardware acceleration works on 3.0 it should work fine on 3.0.4 too. Have you downloaded the latest video drivers for your graphics card?

Alan.

http://www.wondertouch.com

[Fernando Briamo]

Exactly! I must disable Hardware Acceleration in order for it to work.
With 3.0 version the rendering works correctly, on 3.0.4 version if I don’t disable Hardware Acceleration, the rendering doesn’t work.

Yes, I have the latest drivers on my vdieo card.
Why also the BG is very very slow to playback on both versions before apply anything emitter?

[Fernando Briamo]

Also If I set Hardware Acceleration to on before rendering the system is extremly slow to playback BG.
The principal problem is this…impossible to follow the frames to mount emitters correctly because the frames skip without a correct playback motion.

[Alan Lorence]

If you’re skipping frames, I suggest using an image sequence instead of an AVI/WMV. With an image sequence (numbered correctly) you’ll never skip frames.

Alan.

http://www.wondertouch.com

[Fernando Briamo]

For skipping frames I mean that the motion playback is not fluid.

[Alan Lorence]

Are you talking about pIllusionRender or particleIllusion itself? If hardware acceleration works in 3.0, it should work in 3.0.4 too in particleIllusion. If it doesn’t, you need to tell me what’s not working. Try a 640 x 480 project and see if it works. If it does, then it’s probably a pIRender problem.

If you need to turn off hardware acceleration in pIRender I suggest using it only for final render — render in pI3 at lower zoom (50% for instance) so that pIRender is never launched, until the final render.

On my laptop I get 4.7 fps with a 1920 x 1080 PNG image sequence. Not blazingly fast, but not super slow either.

Alan.

http://www.wondertouch.com

[Fernando Briamo]

I’m talking for version 3.0.4 about PIllusion Render for the problem of Rendering where the Hardware Acceleration must set to off to work correctly.
In PIllusion 3.0 the rendering works without any problem. In 3.0.4 I receive three different consequential errors and rendering stopped or produces black screens on frames sequence.

In version 3.0 I have not any rendering problem but the BG is very very slow to playback. This happens also in 3.0.4.

[Fernando Briamo]

Any possible solution?

[Alan Lorence]

Sorry, but I still don’t know if you mean particleIllusion or pIllusionRender.

Alan.

http://www.wondertouch.com

[Fernando Briamo]

Particle Illusion 3.0 has one executable file that is particleillusion.exe and so the application is only one to do anything…emitters editing and rendering.
In the Particle Illusion 3.0 I have only one broblem that is the BG extremly slow to playback also before load any emitter. BG tested with all formats from AVI to sequance of frames (TGA, BMP, PNG…)

Particle Illusions 3.0.4 works not only on one executable but when I start the rendering it opens pillusion render window that is another application of the principal software Particle Illsuion 3.0.4
In this version of particle Illsuion I have the same problem for BG and also the problem of rendering when it starts pillusion render to finalize.

I accept to work also on 3.0 but I want at least that the playback on BG is more faster and not frame by frame. Is not possible even to move the track on the movie because thereby the movie start to skip as if the Hardware Requirements for the software were not met.

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