How to pause and resume render process

How many times have you render a high-resolution image. This process may take several hours. If you do that with a GPU, you can forget any other work on your computer. But you can pause render process, do the job on the comp you wanted and then resume render process. Here is little trick how to do this.

Download the Process Explorer from this link:

Start Process Explorer and find blender.exe
Right click on blender.exe and click on “suspend”. Now the render process is paused. To continue the render process, press right button and click on “resume”. :wink:


Many thanks to the developers for the function denoiser. :slight_smile:

First of all you can do the same using Resource Monitor that’s included with windows, also I’ve been working on a solution that uses suspendthread c++ function to pause unpause blender, but it also minimizes it to a tray icon, because windows will throw out “blender has stopped working” if blender is paused and it’s window still maxmized.
Links: https://gum.co/bpupp
http://www.dummies.com/computers/operating-systems/windows-xp-vista/how-to-monitor-system-resources-on-a-windows-pc/