"Niki Estner" <nik### [at] cube net> wrote in message
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> During the "building photon map" stage I can see no CPU activity in the
> Win2000 task-manager.
I get 75% CPU utilization at this point. But perhaps I have a faster graphics
sub-system (a slower one could pause the renderer for longer).
> Maybe putting the texts into the status bar is done too often?
This is a very good point. When I turned the status bar off, CPU use went up
to 100% on the same scene during the photon build stage. On the whole it didn't
make a huge difference (see below) but it could do so on slower machines. I'll
make some sort of work-around for it.
-- Chris
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With status bar turned on ...
Time For Photon: 0 hours 1 minutes 37.0 seconds (97 seconds)
Time For Trace: 0 hours 0 minutes 8.0 seconds (8 seconds)
Total Time: 0 hours 1 minutes 45.0 seconds (105 seconds)
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With status bar turned off ...
Time For Photon: 0 hours 1 minutes 24.0 seconds (84 seconds)
Time For Trace: 0 hours 0 minutes 8.0 seconds (8 seconds)
Total Time: 0 hours 1 minutes 33.0 seconds (93 seconds)
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