If you want to increase your system performance in Windows Vista/Windows 7 and decrease rendering times. Get a cheap USB Flash/Thumb drive and use Ready Boost.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/window ... boost.aspx
I rendered a 10 GB AVI file using VS X2 to a DVD compliant MPG with and without a flash drive. Results with a flash drive 15 minutes, without a flash drive 17 minutes.
I used a 16 GB flash drive. It has increased overall performance to a point you can see the difference.
Decrease Rendering Times
Moderator: Ken Berry
Hi
ReadyBoost will not boost things like rendering times. Rendering is based on CPU raw power and hard disk input/output speeds which ReadyBoost doesn't touch.
ReadyBoost was designed for laptops or other older computers with very little memory (< 512Meg) where upgrading the memory was impossible or quite expensive. If you have a couple of Gigs or more ReadyBoost will make little difference.
17 minutes down to 15 minutes is hardly a big improvement that you'd notice unless you had a stopwatch surely? This difference can be explained away just by the typical variation between between other processes running in the background or a rearrange of prefetch settings. Perhaps the video file was added to a prefetch list after the first time you rendered it to speed things up the second or third time you needed the file.
Regards
Phil
ReadyBoost will not boost things like rendering times. Rendering is based on CPU raw power and hard disk input/output speeds which ReadyBoost doesn't touch.
ReadyBoost was designed for laptops or other older computers with very little memory (< 512Meg) where upgrading the memory was impossible or quite expensive. If you have a couple of Gigs or more ReadyBoost will make little difference.
17 minutes down to 15 minutes is hardly a big improvement that you'd notice unless you had a stopwatch surely? This difference can be explained away just by the typical variation between between other processes running in the background or a rearrange of prefetch settings. Perhaps the video file was added to a prefetch list after the first time you rendered it to speed things up the second or third time you needed the file.
Regards
Phil
From what is stated on the Microsoft site Ready Boost caches the hard drive(s).
The Microsoft site doesn't explain it much but I have gained performance from using my flash drive.
Reading further about Ready Boost, the version in Windows 7 is different than the one in Vista. It supposedly does increase performance.
The Microsoft site doesn't explain it much but I have gained performance from using my flash drive.
Reading further about Ready Boost, the version in Windows 7 is different than the one in Vista. It supposedly does increase performance.