...doesn't seem to change my render speed significantly. Whilst I
was rendering my animation, it took approx. 20 seconds per frame
on lowest, and approx. 20 second per frame on highest. Why is
that? I have a Pentium IV/1.8 GHz with 512 MB DDR RAM running
WinXP.
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"Timothy R. Cook" wrote:
> > ...doesn't seem to change my render speed significantly. Whilst I> was rendering my animation, it took approx. 20 seconds per frame> on lowest, and approx. 20 second per frame on highest. Why is> that? I have a Pentium IV/1.8 GHz with 512 MB DDR RAM running> WinXP.
You will only notice a difference if you are running other programs
while rendering. It is a multi-tasking switch which gives priority
to one program over another to use of the processor.
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Ken Tyler
From: Tim Nikias
Subject: Re: Changing POV render priority...
Date: 24 Feb 2002 03:26:27
Message: <3C78A3BE.75622D66@gmx.de>
In addition, a significant change is only noticeable with way
longer tracing times (around some minutes to my experience).
20 seconds isn't that much for raytracing, and half a second
more or less isn't obvious, as well as it doesn't make a huge
difference unless your tracing 100+ frames (100*.5s=50s)...
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It maybe a windows 'thing'.
I did tests on priority with a file that took around 9 minutes and the highest
priority took the the same as the lowest.
Here is the result of three different files
lowest 41s --- 3.26m --- 9.26m
lower 41s --- 3.26m --- 9.17m
normal 40s --- 3.26m --- 9.26m
higher 42s --- 3.25m --- 9.19m
highest 41s --- 3.24m --- 9.26m
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