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by dkelly84
Tue Oct 30, 2018 9:42 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Cleaning force exiting a render
Replies: 5
Views: 6372

Re: Cleaning force exiting a render

Thanks for your suggestions, I've managed to come up with a solution that lets afrender run constantly in the background. In my batch file that either starts or stops afrender depending if someone is logged on, I've done the following: Get the computer name in lowercase: for /f "usebackq delims...
by dkelly84
Tue Oct 30, 2018 12:34 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Cleaning force exiting a render
Replies: 5
Views: 6372

Re: Cleaning force exiting a render

Thanks, I will look into that. Normally I would use something like taskkill /im "afrender.exe", which should work, but I'm getting a failure with reason: "Reason: This process can only be terminated forcefully (with /F option)", so I've been using the /F to kill it. I can see wha...
by dkelly84
Mon Oct 29, 2018 7:59 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Cleaning force exiting a render
Replies: 5
Views: 6372

Cleaning force exiting a render

Hi, I've pushed out CGRU to around 100-150 workstations with Blender, Houdini, Maya and Nuke - first of all can I just say thanks for such great software, we're having great fun making the most of our hardware with it. I have configured a startup scheduled task to launch render.cmd (and therefor afr...