POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unix : Why so slow? : Re: Why so slow? Server Time
29 Jul 2024 00:35:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Why so slow?  
From: Edward Coffey
Date: 28 Sep 1999 00:30:54
Message: <37f0447e@news.povray.org>
> What kind of speed difference are you seeing?  Are you sure your
> comparing apples to apples?  i.e. different anti-aliasing levels on the
> two OS's.  One thing I've noticed is that x display of X-pov can be very
> slow,  especially if it must convert the preview image to a small color
> pallet (8 or 16 bit color depth).   Try rendering with the display off
> "-d".  If you see a significant speedup, this is your problem.  Make
> sure you are in a true color video mode (24 bit or better)  or just skip
> the preview and wait for the TGA file.

I was careful to use exactly the same settings for both renders - I had the
preview turned on for both, but I will try it without to see if this brings
them in line.


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