Actually, the difference is much less than 10% between DOS and Win,
provided you have enough memory and care to tweak your system settings a
bit. On my machine, skyvase (640x480 AA) took 1:12 (DOS) and 1:14 (Win).
Still, there's no denying Win is a recource hog and a no-no for large
scenes.
Perhaps sb. could give the results on Linux/Unix as a comparison? I am
considering getting Linux; this might be a nice incentive to take the
trouble.

Margus

Fabien Mosen wrote:
 
> "not much" ?  Well, 10% faster is appreciated on longish renderings...
> It gives more than 2 hours difference in a not-so-rare-for-me 24 h
> render...  Also, the DOS version (if clean DOS boot) gives more
> useable memory to POV.  Appreciated by people who have 32 megs or so.
> (I got 128 Mb, but still prefer the dos "interface" in most cases).
> 
> Cheers,
> Fabien.

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