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Can Compressor 4.1 work with older vesion?
I wan to reuse my old computer to take advantage of the “Shared computer” feature of Compressor. The problem is, my current computer using Compressor 4.1 while the old one cannot handle it (it’s quite old, and only has 2GB of RAM). Can I install older version of Compressor to work with the new one? Thanks.
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Though I couldn’t tell you HOW off the top of my head (a lot has changed), I would think that theoretically, yes, it should work. Because they both use QMaster for the render distribution. But to be honest, I *highly* doubt you would even notice *any* improvement of any kind. A machine with 2GB RAM will be so old and limited, that its speed will never be able to compensate for the overhead time the distributed rendering requires in addition to the rendering itself. I’d say it’s a complete waste of time to even try.
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Thanks for your reply, I’ll try anyway. Hope It’ll work.
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I would bet that it in fact slows you down instead.
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