Autodesk 3DS max slow rendering.

ballerslife

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Jan 26, 2013
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I've just got into 3d Modeling/rendering, and my computer starts to lag in even the basic scenes, such as a flag waving. Here are my specs:

i5 3570k
ASrock Z77 Pro3
8GB Crucial RAM 1600Mhz
Sapphire 7870XT

I heard you could do GPU rendering, obviously since my GPU is the fastest part of my system. Any ideas on how I could speed up my rendering?
 
Have you checked to see what services are running in the background and how much memory they are using? One way to do this is CTRL+ALT+DELETE and start Task Manager. You could also run MSCONFIG and disable unneeded items from Startup to see if that helps. I don't claim to know anything about 3DS Max but I have heard with rendering it all depends on what is being rendered as to whether or not it is the CPU or GPU that handles the rendering.