QuoteOn the Windows Update settings, select "Pause updates for 7 days" and then select "Advanced options". Then use the drop-down box under "Pause until".
Thanks, jaf. Pausing it to a specific date seems to be the way to go.
QuoteJust change the crop region each render (you could animate it).
Now, that's a great idea. This way you get the best of both worlds – a continuous rendering but saving to disk periodically. Thanks.
I wonder if tiling large images is more efficient to begin with. The rendering that I lost was 3840 x 2160. The last time I checked it had run for more than 25 hours, and at the rate it was going had at least another 6-8 hours to go. Let's just say it would have been finished in 32 hours. I rendered the first tile of the same image last night, same settings. Size was 960x2160, a vertical strip that included atmosphere and ground detail. It rendered in 3 hours. If the rest take the same amount of time that's a total of 12 hours . . . hmm.