I work with twin screens with 3ds max Design 2009 and Corel Draw X4. |
to use both programs buy another monitor and graphics cards with 2 VGA ports so you can render max on one and use paint on another |
It looks like he's already doing that, but monitors and VGA ports don't do the rendering, it all happens in the CPU and memory, and these resorces are usually completely exhausted by the rendering process.
You can try the set affinity trick, but using half the processing cores will make the render take twice as long, and only leave half for CD4 to use. So it may just prolong your agony trying to use it while rendering.
I want to work normally while I am doing some rendering in the other screen. |
The only way to really work normally is to net-render. OK, maybe you can't afford to fill a rack with the latest super-fast render nodes, but just adding your old PC that gathering dust in the corner can help. Or build your own render node(s), buying just the component parts it needs. As mentioned, CPU and memory are the important bits, you can skimp on everything else.
Other than that, just do what me and every other 3D arist did in the dark ages before discovering net-rendering, do it when you sleep.