[Michael Fernandes]

Thanks for the help so far guys! Unfortunately, I checked and I had not installed any windows updates recently, nor do I have an antivirus installed other than windows defender. I tried disabling defender just while I render my project and that didn’t seem to help either. I’m completely stumped as to why my renders are performing at 25% speed of what they used to as recently as a week ago. The strange thing is that CPU, memory, and Disk according to task manager never go above 60% during the render, and are much lower than 60 for most of the rendering time. It feels like something else is holding the speed back, but I have no clue what it is. Nothing else appears in task manager as a performance hog. It shouldn’t take 3 seconds to render 1 frame, this is brutal.

[Michael Fernandes]

I’m aware my comp is a bit outdated, that’s why I was putting up with the fairly slow 45 minute render time before. But the sudden drop to 3-4 hours is strange. GPU acceleration would always crash my render so I stopped using it a while ago. My Render As template is under the Sony AVC/ MVC section I choose Internet 1920x 1080-30p and use default settings. My project settings are the default HD 1080p – 60i . Laptop model is Hp Pavillion M6

I checked and I do have USB 3.0. Like you said, I do have all my stuff on the C drive, however, I own a 500GB portable hard drive that I could use. Does this method work better simply based on the fact that it’s a separate drive, or will it only help if there’s more space on the other drive? And should the source files used in the project be on the portable hard drive as well or just the project and rendered file?

Let me know if there are any other details I left out, thanks!