I noticed the same behaviour.
Do you mean there is no way for POV to use the whole power of the processor 
and we have to wait twice the time we should ? Rats !


cjtlju$29m$1@chho.imagico.de...
> DocJunioR wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I'm using POV on a P4 machine with 3.2 GHz under winXP.
>> Switching the render priority to highest, i only get a processor usage of
>> 50%.
>> P4 processors are splitted into 2 processors. how can I tell my POV to 
>> use
>> both parts?
>
> P4 processors are single processors just like others.  They can just 
> represent themselves to the system as two virtual processors.  If your OS 
> reports 50% use then this is not the real processor use.  POV-Ray does not 
> use multiple processors (neither virtual nor real) so the only way to use 
> them is to run several instances of POV-Ray (either manually or 
> automatically).
>
> Christoph
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