Dual processor 2.0 GHz G5 with 2.5 GB RAM. Sweeeeeet machine.

I bought LightWave 7.5 a year ago and have only just now started learning
it--it makes the POV-Ray learning curve look like a gentle slope in
comparison! Also, there are some serious OpenGL problems with LightWave on
Panther (OS X 10.3) which NewTek (the maker of LightWave) has yet to
solve... hopefully LW8, which is due any day now, will solve those issues.

I haven't run any of the POV-Ray benchmarks on my G5 yet because I was so
excited to merely get POV-Ray running at all. The screen saver freeze up was
an annoyance but I got around that by (duh!) turning off the screen saver.
Also, I'm not sure yet but "Background Processing" seemed to cause a
freeze-up---it may very well have been the screen saver that was the real
culprit but until I do some more testing I won't know for sure. (btw, I'm
using the "3.5.1 for G5" rendering engine option... haven't tried the
non-optimized one yet and I figured there was no point in trying the G4
option.)


"Renderdog" <slo### [at] hiwaaynet> wrote in message
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> Scott Gammans wrote:
> >Yup, downloaded it last night. I've run into some minor problems, mostly
> >with my G5 freezing up if it goes into screen saver mode while POV-Ray is
> >rendering. If I have any behavior I can reliably duplicate I'll submit a
bug
> >report through the normal channels.
>
>
> Ooooh, a G5... Which one, and have you timed the benchmark?
> Are you using Panther?
>
> I'm planning to get a G5 eventually, primarily for POV-Ray, but
> the early benchmarks posted here weren't very impressive
> (slower than an $800 Athlon box). Of course, I'd still prefer an
> OSX machine and will get a G5 anyway, but there are a lot
> of nice Windows utilities for POV-Ray you give up using a Mac.
>
> One nice thing about a dual G5 is I could continue to use my
> machine while POV-Ray crunches in the background, but you
> can get a similar system using an Athlon machine with a shell
> script as described on Christopher James Huff's website.
>
> As a solution for the future, though, software for the G5 will
> only get faster. And there's always Maya or Lightwave, though
> I enjoy using POV-Ray so much I'm not interested in switching
> any time soon.
>
>

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