Blender Problems rendering in OS

[Sxynerd]

I'm trying to make a "New Animated title" in Openshot which uses Blender. It's been going for 10 minutes, my quad cores (I5) have been running at 100% but I'm only using 7-9% memory. Something doesn't seem right.

In 10 minutes, only 6 or the 150 frames has been rendered and in previous attempts of other renders it seem to complete the render but then disappear. (Probably crashing blender but not Openshot.)

I'm using a laptop w/ an HD 6490m video card, proprietary driver version 12.4. (13.4 seems to give me other issues.)

The OS is 12.04 LTS


Also Blender will not open on it's own. If I click on it, the unity icon does the fade in & out like it's going to start but never does.


At some point, I have had it working on the laptop but I have no clue how.


Please advise.

Thanks,
W.

[Sxynerd]

Anyone?