I am curious, just how much faster does the DOS version render? Can anyone
give me an approximate percentage? After all, a scene that takes 20 hours
being rendered in 19 hours really makes no difference. It would need to be
20-50 percent faster to really impact.

On the subject, what about the Linux version?

Thanks
Gordon
<gbentley#birdcameron.com.au>

Rick wrote in message <36e097a6.0@news.povray.org>...
>I am running on a AMD K6 233, maybe its just windoze 987, being a pig.
>
>I have just got thwe msdos version od 3.1d, so will be rendering complex
>scenes in that from pure dos, that should be much faster! - I like to start
>my renders before bed, and have them ready when i get up :)
>
>Rick
>
>Ken wrote in message <36DEC8AD.9C796FD1@pacbell.net>...
>>Rick wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> Is  it just me or is POV 3.1d slower than the last version?, Especially
>when
>>> using rad and AA (9x9 rays)
>>>
>>> Rick
>>
>>  Of all the tests I ran prior to it's release the opposite was true in
>>all cases. While I ran no performance tests on radiosity I did casualy
>>run a couple files with it turned on and recall is rendered surprisingly
>>fast. If you are running an old 486 machine you might have suffered
>>a performance degradation but anybody with a pentium or better machine
>>should see a performance increase in several different types of rendering
>>situations.
>>  Often times if it's rendering slowly it's more related to the
>construction
>>of the scene than it is anything else. Transparent textures, multiple
>csg's,
>>and lots of reflection all take their toll on the the old render clock.
>>  Take a look at the test results I submitted to Chris Cason either by
>>looking in povray.announce.frequently-asked-questions or hit the link
below
>>to go straight to it.
>>
>>http://www.povray.org/cgi-bin/dnewsweb?cmd=article&group=povray.announce.f
r
>equently-asked-questions&item=9
>>
>>--
>>Ken Tyler
>>
>>mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net
>
>

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