Blender became SLOW after Yafray render.

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I’ve installed Blender just after clean Windows Vista installation (after formatting my hard disk). I ran it once or twice without any problems. I was taking a look at an old model of mine and I rendered it a couple times to get some images and then I installed Yafray and tried ro render it at the highest possible quality just to check the output.

In the first time I had to CTRL+ALT+DEL because I didn’t know it was going to take so long and couldn’t wait. The second time, after restarting the system, I let it go (took little more than 40 minutes or so, maybe more).

Well since then whenever I use Blender, by merely rotating the view around the initial default layout (with that cube) I can notice I’m getting a very low FPS. I also noticed the slowness while playing Windows’ Solitarie. I tried to restart the system, completely turning the power off, waiting a couple seconds and turning it back on again (to be absolutely sure anything stored in the card would be reset), but nothing helped.

Questions: Did the render melt my video card? What’s going on? :frowning:

I’m running under Windows Vista, Intel Core 2 Duo, GeForce 8800 GTS, 2Gb RAM

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Found out the reason! :slight_smile:

My graphics card automatically reduces performance when heat level raises to prevent it from continuing to rise. So, working at maximum speed (for the YafRay render) for ~45 minutes capped the board’s performance until some time later after it cooled down. It’s all good now. Phew… :slight_smile: