Jean Montambeault wrote in message <37335509.0@news.povray.org>...
>
>        I've heard that so much that I just had to try it. So I installed
>POV for
>ms-dos and ran the "skyvase.pov" benchmark from booting into ms-dos.
>Results : 203 seconds. I ran it twice more checking that all the options
>were
>there as recommended : same thing. Now, in Win98, with nothing else
>running and the recommended options set it renders in 101-102 seconds
>(not quite as consistent). The margin is very significant. So, what am I
>doing wrong ?


One possibility:  on my 400Mhz AMD K6, if I tell Windoze 98 to 'restart in
dos mode', for unknown reasons the computer runs so slowly, it feels like a
486/33!  The fix:  when turning on the computer, press F8 (I think) to start
up in true DOS.

Mark

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