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by **x3studio** on Tue Nov 24, 2009 8:11 pm

The image I prepared for a testing in 3200 x 2400 resolution
was rendered:

locally on core2quad -> 9 hours 44 minutes
on corefarm -> 30 minutes 48 sec

http://www.michalwozniak.com/dane/last_test.jpg

I think if there will be even more participating computers rendering could be fastest..

All the best

Very thanks for William GREAT "COREFARM" WORK

by **sylweks** on Fri Nov 27, 2009 11:02 am

Wow that's really nice score

i have just registered contributing my 4 cores and maby later i'll add 2 more

BTW is there a 64 bit windows version? This would be a significant boost in render speed.

by **william** on Fri Nov 27, 2009 11:16 am

Hi!

Welcome to the corefarm community ! Did you installed prone 0.1.4 ? there was an issue with the previous version, so don't hesitate to upgrade to the latest version (www.corefarm.org/participate) !!

The client is open source, so feel free to recompile it for windows 64 ;-)

I only own a 32 bit machine;

Enjoy the corefarm,

All the best,

william

by **Alain** on Fri Nov 27, 2009 12:14 pm

I just downloaded prone 0.1.4 for windows 32 bit and it still crashes.
when I look into the "shell" I see there prone 0.1.1 running an not 0.1.4 as I would aspect.

I could install a virtual linux maschine to run a stable prone, right ? :-)

kind regards
alain

by **regius** on Fri Nov 27, 2009 12:32 pm

In order to upgrade on Windows, you must:
1.download the new version, and remember where you put it;
2.if is running, kill the running prone.exe from the Task Manager (right-click on prone.exe, choose "End Process");
3.uninstal prone (Start>Programs>Corefarm>Uninstall Wirox);
4.double-click the new installer (see 1.)
5.the installation finishes with starting prone.exe

To participate:
1.log into your account at corefarm.org > Manager > Prone Configuration > Start contributing >
2.set the no. of cores you wish to participate with
3.you want you can allow prone to start cotributing as soon as windows is up.

by **Alain** on Fri Nov 27, 2009 1:42 pm

Thanks regius, thats exactly how I did it but...
-it still crashs imediatly afer starting contributing
-and it doesn't explain why in windows pseudo shell tells mit that prone 0.1.1 instead of 0.1.4 is running

Kind regards

by **william** on Fri Nov 27, 2009 2:50 pm

Hi Alain,

Well, this is pretty bad. ..

Can you try with prone 0.1.5 (http://www.corefarm.org/wiki/participate) ? you have a developement environment on your computer ? It is probably a library mismatch somewhere, we have to find what it is !!

Can you try to remove the file libxml2.dll from c:\program files\corefarm ?

And yes, prone in a virtualized linux should work, but it will not be efficient ..

Thanks for your feedback !

william

by **Alain** on Fri Nov 27, 2009 3:16 pm

Hi William

I removed the libxml2.dll on prone 0.1.4 but I coudn't start it again because of the missing dll.
Now I have installed 0.1.5, it runs at the moment, I guess the critical moment is when prone gets a job to compute, let's wait an see :-)