Just a quick question....

How much performance difference is there between running
POV 3.0x under Win 95, Win NT 4.0 and Dos?

I'm planning to buy a Pentium II in the next few months, and
will dual boot between Win 95 and Win NT if the performance
increases are considerable.

Note though, I have no real use for NT - I will be getting
exclusively for use with POV. Is it worth the trouble, or
should I just exit to DOS and run my renders there?

Many thanks,
Chris Hernandez.

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I would stick with Win95 and WinPov. Without any other use for NT, why?
Either way you can render from DOS, but I feel the WinPov editor alone saves
you time enough to forego even using DOS.
  This is only my opinion and in no way suggests that I engaged a brain in
forming it. :)
--
Paul Hinds
gri### [at] swbellnet

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You should get the povpro version of povray.. I tried a scene in it the
other day using povpro, pov for dos, and povwin.  The results were povpro
5m17s, pov (dos) 7m46s, pov (win) 7m28s.  So as you can see this povpro will
produce scenes somewhat quicker than either of the official versions!!

Bryan Garnett-Law

GrimDude wrote in message <34db94de.0@news.povray.org>...
>  I would stick with Win95 and WinPov. Without any other use for NT, why?
>Either way you can render from DOS, but I feel the WinPov editor alone
saves
>you time enough to forego even using DOS.
>  This is only my opinion and in no way suggests that I engaged a brain in
>forming it. :)
>--
>Paul Hinds
>gri### [at] swbellnet
>
>
>

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Okay,.... where do we find it? :)

--
Paul Hinds
gri### [at] swbellnet

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Links to povpro :-)

  ftp://terra.ru.com/pub/gamos/povray/povpro.txt
  ftp://terra.ru.com/pub/gamos/povray/povpro.zip
  ftp://terra.ru.com/pub/gamos/povray/xsamples.txt
  ftp://terra.ru.com/pub/gamos/povray/xsamples.zip


Bryan Garnett-Law

GrimDude wrote in message <34dbffb2.0@news.povray.org>...
>Okay,.... where do we find it? :)
>
>--
>Paul Hinds
>gri### [at] swbellnet
>
>
>

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Bryan Garnett-Law wrote in message <34dd013a.0@news.povray.org>...
>Links to povpro :-)
>
>  ftp://terra.ru.com/pub/gamos/povray/povpro.txt
>  ftp://terra.ru.com/pub/gamos/povray/povpro.zip
>  ftp://terra.ru.com/pub/gamos/povray/xsamples.txt
>  ftp://terra.ru.com/pub/gamos/povray/xsamples.zip
>


I seem to be having trouble connecting to that FTP server. Do you know
of any other links?

What is POVPro? I haven't heard about it before.

Cheers,
Chris.

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Some dude has actually optimised the povray code / exe for pentium
processors.  I am telling you this is SO much quicker... I don't know of any
other links.... keep trying for next few days, if you have no luck contact
me personally (bjm### [at] wantreecomau) and I will post the archive to my web
site and send you a link to download it :-)

Bryan

Chris Hernandez wrote in message <34de9222.0@news.povray.org>...
>
>Bryan Garnett-Law wrote in message <34dd013a.0@news.povray.org>...
>>Links to povpro :-)
>>
>>  ftp://terra.ru.com/pub/gamos/povray/povpro.txt
>>  ftp://terra.ru.com/pub/gamos/povray/povpro.zip
>>  ftp://terra.ru.com/pub/gamos/povray/xsamples.txt
>>  ftp://terra.ru.com/pub/gamos/povray/xsamples.zip
>>
>
>
>I seem to be having trouble connecting to that FTP server. Do you know
>of any other links?
>
>What is POVPro? I haven't heard about it before.
>
>Cheers,
>Chris.
>
>

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On Tue, 10 Feb 1998 07:09:26 +0800, "Bryan Garnett-Law"
<bjm### [at] wantreecomau> wrote:

>Some dude has actually optimised the povray code / exe for pentium
>processors.  I am telling you this is SO much quicker... I don't know of any
>other links.... keep trying for next few days, if you have no luck contact
>me personally (bjm### [at] wantreecomau) and I will post the archive to my web
>site and send you a link to download it :-)
>
>Bryan
>
>Chris Hernandez wrote in message <34de9222.0@news.povray.org>...
>>
>>Bryan Garnett-Law wrote in message <34dd013a.0@news.povray.org>...
>>>Links to povpro :-)
>>>
>>>  ftp://terra.ru.com/pub/gamos/povray/povpro.txt
>>>  ftp://terra.ru.com/pub/gamos/povray/povpro.zip
>>>  ftp://terra.ru.com/pub/gamos/povray/xsamples.txt
>>>  ftp://terra.ru.com/pub/gamos/povray/xsamples.zip
>>>
>>
>>
>>I seem to be having trouble connecting to that FTP server. Do you know
>>of any other links?
>>
>>What is POVPro? I haven't heard about it before.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Chris.
>>
>>
>
>

I tried to go to this link, but no matter I go to com only, pub or
whatever deeper Nethelper isn't able to trace any connection there, it
seems to be a bad IP adress. So I went to bjm### [at] wantreecomau,
but have no permission to change to any directory there to search for
povpro, is it a server for australia only? This is from germany, any
suggestions? I really would like to try this povpro compile, is it w95
and is it pov3.0x compatible?

steff

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GrimDude wrote:

>   I would stick with Win95 and WinPov. Without any other use for NT, why?
> Either way you can render from DOS, but I feel the WinPov editor alone saves
> you time enough to forego even using DOS.

    You should be able to most of this functionality by using a DOS version of
Emacs, preferable with pov-mod installed.

                -Rozzin

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