Piece It Together by Redcap

Another fun filter!
Thanks RedCap... going to go make some more of these

hi nikki,

i just tried it out and it wasnt that bad. i only tried it at 1024 x 1024 and it took five minutes exactly, and that was with anti-aliasing on. but, at 3000 x 3000, that would be nine times larger. but, that still shld only have taken about 45 minutes on a straight, relative size basis.

i'm using a 3500 AMD processort, single core and two gigs of ram. and i've got FF set to use 70% of ram. i dont know what your specs are, but that it wouldnt render over night seems odd.

here's a couple things you might try. reboot your machine and try again. sometimes FF will render quite slowly or even crash or not render when you've been using it for a while. it's somewhat rare these days; the folks at FF have done a pretty good job of cleaning up the bugs, but anything can happen to a program running in windows.

go to "Tools\options" and hit the "Render" tab. in that window look for the "maximum amount of ram" field and move the slider up a bit if it's not already at 100%. i forget what the default is, but i dont think it's 100%. set it something over 50% but not all the way to 100%. try around 70 or 80% and see if that helps.

set your image size on 'new image' to 1024 x 1024 and let me know what you get with that.

if that doesnt work, turn off anti-aliasing and try again and let me know what you get with that.

also, in tools\options\render, turn ON the timer for showing the rendering time. it's under the far right tab. when the image is done rendering you'll get a little popup that shows how long the render took.

also, be prepared to give FF your machine's specs.

additionally, you'll get faster help for bug problems by using the 'contact FF' email thing. the FF team doesnt always come into the forums here every day and sometimes dont see all the posts. the contact email is more reliable. you might also, thouogh, post something in the 'Bugs' forum about this.

well, it seems to be something on your end. no filter shld take six hours to render, even at 3000 x 3000.

one other thing you can try is to set 'view' to render at the reduced size. the diplay will show a 3000 x 3000 at something like 600 x 600 and only when you save will it render at 3000 x 3000. so, see if the view thing is set to show actual or show reduced. but, even at set to actual, it shldnt take six hours. so, something is going on there.

could be some conflicting background tasks or something else is eating up all your ram, but even if somethign else is eating the ram, your virtual ram shld kick in and handle things, albeit more slowly. and that's somethign else you can check, your virtual ram. check windows to make sure this is set for a large enough size to handle big files like this. i think i have mine set at about 2 gigs. so, 2 gigs of ram and 2 gigs of virtual ram. virtual ram is also called your 'swap file' and there's a setting in windows where you can regulate how much disk space to allocate for this.

Fixed the speed issue, now it is about twice as fast. Still not the faster filter in the forge however.