Taylor Swift - Silent Night - not rendering completely (and it was my fault)

[JonB256]

Used to render just fine in some (who remembers?) older version

But in 2019.67 it is not rendering a about 30 seconds of effects (display is blank when playing) at around 2:10

Trying 2019.68 right now (just upgraded)

[JonB256]

This seems to be a problem of my own making.

Looking at some of my larger groups and whole house group, I had the sizes too large. Dropped everything down to "minimal grid" and it Rendered just fine.

This is on a 32gb machine with a 16core processor. Watching it run, I could see xLights using 28gb of that memory but only 14% CPU time. Then my video monitors would go blank for 5 minutes, then it would come back and say it was complete, but had a "blank section" with no lights. About 10 minutes without a good FSEQ.

Now it finishes correctly in just over 2 minutes.  The problem group, almost the whole house, is about 150,000 channels.