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Do the number of icons on the desktop slow down a computer?

Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,546
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

I think I have heard that a lot of icons on the desktop will slow down a computer.  I am questioning that because something seems off with that theory.  I am thinking just because one has a cluttered desktop does not mean that is the reason the computer is slow.  Basically number of icons on the desktop will not affect the iray render speeds.  Aren't there a lot of factors other than amount of icons on the desktop that affect iray render speeds, like the amount of content in the scene.

Does content that is loaded in the scene but not visible by the camera affect iray rendering speed more than icons on the desktop?

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  • kenshaw011267kenshaw011267 Posts: 3,805

    NO. icons take up a trivial amount of space in the video buffer. You can see this for yourself. Open up task manager when you've just got the desktop showing and nothing else running. Your VRAM and CPU usage will be trivial.

  • rsharp_3144816rsharp_3144816 Posts: 99

    Technically yes, but only when the desktop is typically visible. But then, not enough to even be measureable. Especially against the compute power needed for a render.

    Multiple icons though could also slightly tax file I/O especially when custom icons are in play (e.g. actual image previews). Sometimes a refresh is needed which will have to re-read in lots of files. But that won’t tax the GPU at all. And very little of the CPU. 

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,546

    Does rendering in DS4.10, playing with G8M in DS 4.11 and looking for LaFemme in Poser 11 and trying to install the free version of 3dsMax on my computer slow down the computer?  or is it because I have too many tabs open in firefox and too many icons on my desktop?

  • FSMCDesignsFSMCDesigns Posts: 12,780
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    Does rendering in DS4.10, playing with G8M in DS 4.11 and looking for LaFemme in Poser 11 and trying to install the free version of 3dsMax on my computer slow down the computer?  or is it because I have too many tabs open in firefox and too many icons on my desktop?

    LOL, all of the above.

  • KitsumoKitsumo Posts: 1,216
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    Does rendering in DS4.10, playing with G8M in DS 4.11 and looking for LaFemme in Poser 11 and trying to install the free version of 3dsMax on my computer slow down the computer?  or is it because I have too many tabs open in firefox and too many icons on my desktop?

    Once DS starts rendering, it shouldn't be using the hard drive much at all, unless it runs out of RAM and starts paging. Doing the Poser search and installing 3dsMax will slow each other down if they're trying to use the same hard drive. It'd be like two people trying to listen to different songs on the same vinyl record and they keep moving the needle back and forth between songs. Eventually they will both get to hear their songs but it'll take a lot longer, more than twice as long as if they listen one at a time. Firefox tabs may be a problem if it uses all your RAM and starts paging. Desktop icons shouldn't matter, the icons are just links to programs - Windows ignores them until you click on one of them.

  • rrwardrrward Posts: 556
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    Does rendering in DS4.10, playing with G8M in DS 4.11 and looking for LaFemme in Poser 11 and trying to install the free version of 3dsMax on my computer slow down the computer?  or is it because I have too many tabs open in firefox and too many icons on my desktop?

    Define "too many tabs". Firefox can eat massive amounts of RAM and CPU. I'm assuming the first sentance is in jest.

  • LenioTGLenioTG Posts: 2,118

    Looking at GPU-Z, firefox tabs DO occupy VRAM, sadly! :(

    Last time I was on DeviantArt checking out some great artists, my whole VRAM was taken xD

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,546
    edited May 2019
    TGFan4 said:

    Looking at GPU-Z, firefox tabs DO occupy VRAM, sadly! :(

    Last time I was on DeviantArt checking out some great artists, my whole VRAM was taken xD

    Is GPU-Z free?

    rrward said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    Does rendering in DS4.10, playing with G8M in DS 4.11 and looking for LaFemme in Poser 11 and trying to install the free version of 3dsMax on my computer slow down the computer?  or is it because I have too many tabs open in firefox and too many icons on my desktop?

    Define "too many tabs". Firefox can eat massive amounts of RAM and CPU. I'm assuming the first sentance is in jest.

    I do not know but I did reduce some tabs. I am trying to find a firefox addon to figure that out so I can keep it under a hundred or two.

    edit: wow I reduced it to 25 tabs right now!

    Post edited by Sfariah D on
  • kenshaw011267kenshaw011267 Posts: 3,805

    Do not keep that many browser tabs open. That will impact performance.

    GPU-Z is free.

    Running 4.10 and 4.11 at the same time will definitely slow things down. They're competing for the same resource, VRAM.

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