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From: M Hilburger
Subject: Search for utility
Date: 5 Jan 2001 10:46:41
Message: <3A55EC46.23F70BDC@aol.com>
A few weeks ago i read something about a program which makes povray
faster. Can anyone tell me where i can find it?
Thanks
    Matt


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From: Christoph Hormann
Subject: Re: Search for utility
Date: 5 Jan 2001 11:01:29
Message: <3A55EFD0.1D520D53@gmx.de>
M Hilburger wrote:
> 
> A few weeks ago i read something about a program which makes povray
> faster. Can anyone tell me where i can find it?
> Thanks
>     Matt

I'm not sure if such a tool exists, but i don't think it could seriously
improve Povray's speed.  The best ways to speed up things are:

- Shutting down all other applications taking CPU time and memory
- increasing render priority
- optimising render options and code
- get better hardware :-)

see also:

http://www.students.tut.fi/~warp/povVFAQ/miscVFAQ.html#renderingspeed

Apart from that i don't think you can increase speed with the same version
of Povray.  You could of course try to compile your own version optimized
for your hardware.  Furthermore it is well known, that the Linux version
of Povray is slightly faster than the windows version.

Christoph

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From: Tom Melly
Subject: Re: Search for utility
Date: 5 Jan 2001 11:20:25
Message: <3a55f449$1@news.povray.org>
"M Hilburger" <hil### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
news:3A55EC46.23F70BDC@aol.com...
> A few weeks ago i read something about a program which makes povray
> faster. Can anyone tell me where i can find it?

Hmmm, you might be thinking of megapov - this can speed up the rendering of
high-quality media if that's what you're interested in.


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Search for utility
Date: 5 Jan 2001 12:55:40
Message: <3a560a9c@news.povray.org>
In povray.windows M Hilburger <hil### [at] aolcom> wrote:
: A few weeks ago i read something about a program which makes povray faster.

  That would really be an interesting program.

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From: Marc-Hendrik Bremer
Subject: Re: Search for utility
Date: 5 Jan 2001 15:02:05
Message: <3a56283d@news.povray.org>
I think, you are searching for the thread "Power for Pov" (2/10/00). The
original Author was Heiner Maier and he pointed to the site www.gsma.de.
Didn't tried it out myself though.

Hth,

Marc-Hendrik

M Hilburger schrieb in Nachricht <3A55EC46.23F70BDC@aol.com>...
>A few weeks ago i read something about a program which makes povray
>faster. Can anyone tell me where i can find it?
>Thanks
>    Matt
>
>


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From: Rick [Kitty5]
Subject: Re: Search for utility
Date: 6 Jan 2001 07:23:53
Message: <3a570e59@news.povray.org>
> A few weeks ago i read something about a program which makes povray
> faster. Can anyone tell me where i can find it?

Its called buy a faster CPU and more ram, sorry.


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From: Mike Williams
Subject: Re: Search for utility
Date: 9 Jan 2001 13:39:15
Message: <XpOClSAovyW6Ewgy@econym.demon.co.uk>
Wasn't it M Hilburger who wrote:

>A few weeks ago i read something about a program which makes povray
>faster. Can anyone tell me where i can find it?

Could you possibly be thinking of the old "Faster-than-POV" program? It
was a patched version of POV version 2.1 that used light buffers, and
thereby ran noticeably faster than POV 2.1.

POV version 3.1 has light buffers built in.

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From: Bob H 
Subject: Re: Search for utility
Date: 9 Jan 2001 21:06:20
Message: <3a5bc39c@news.povray.org>
"Mike Williams" <mik### [at] nospamplease> wrote in message
news:XpO### [at] econymdemoncouk...
>
> >A few weeks ago i read something about a program which makes povray
> >faster. Can anyone tell me where i can find it?
>
> Could you possibly be thinking of the old "Faster-than-POV" program? It
> was a patched version of POV version 2.1 that used light buffers, and
> thereby ran noticeably faster than POV 2.1.
>
> POV version 3.1 has light buffers built in.

There used to be something called POV-Pro (Proton) as well and I haven't had
any luck locating it again.  It's based on the DOS POV 3.0 and had a ASCII for
render display.  Was quite fast, up to 50% it was said, I saw almost that much
a speed increase for certain renders.

Bob H.


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From: M Hilburger
Subject: Re: Search for utility
Date: 9 Jan 2001 13:27:23
Message: <3A5B5817.EDF69124@aol.com>
Marc-Hendrik Bremer schrieb:

> I think, you are searching for the thread "Power for Pov" (2/10/00). The
> original Author was Heiner Maier and he pointed to the site www.gsma.de.
> Didn't tried it out myself though.
>
> Hth,
>
> Marc-Hendrik
>
> M Hilburger schrieb in Nachricht <3A55EC46.23F70BDC@aol.com>...
> >A few weeks ago i read something about a program which makes povray
> >faster. Can anyone tell me where i can find it?
> >Thanks
> >    Matt
> >
> >

Thanks!
I downloaded the program Powertop from gsma.de. quite a good program for my
P90.
Thanks again and have a lot of fun
    Matt


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