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13 Aug 2024 01:18:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: How to speed up rendering?  
From: Orrin
Date: 23 Jan 1999 10:09:05
Message: <36a9e5e9.4689826@news.povray.org>
Miguel Alvarez Rodriguez <nor### [at] abonadoscpluses> wrote:

>Kyle wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone.  I'm using an old 486/100mhz to do raytracing, and when
>> rendering a scene at 640x400 with antialiasing depth 2  the fastest I
>> can seem to get it to go is 18 pps.  (I'm using the WIN95 version)  I
>> have all other programs shut down. Render priority on highest, GUI
>> priority on lowest, and the render window closed....are there any more
>> ways to speed up render time?  Besides the obvious "turn down AA" or
>> "buy a new computer you cheapo".  Any suggestions?
>>                     Kyle
>
>Use the Linux version, it's 40% faster  8-)

..or the DOS version!  Windows will slow down most any application!


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