If I bought a CRAY super computer will CA be faster?

[Gary Doski]

Hey Doug, Thanks for the pointers.

Unchecking "Aggressive Cache Flushing" only shaved off 2-3 seconds, But the "Hardware Edge Smoothing" saved a good chunk! I'll leave them both unchecked.

My New Times.

Render = too small to worry about
Water colors w/Line drawing = 22.42 seconds
with shadow = 54.50 seconds
Raytrace = 38.76 seconds

One of the very annoying things going through this, is the drawing is redrawing itself constantly. It seems that any movement of your mouse triggers a redraw? You have to hit esc. a bunch of times. Anyone else seeing this?

[Joe Carrick]

On some cards turning off "Hardware Edge Smoothing" can make a big difference.

Hopefully I'll never need to do that - I can't stand the appearance with it off.

ps: I'm using an NVidea 560M with 3GB Ram and my performance is excellent.

[Gary Doski]

Hopefully I'll never need to do that - I can't stand the appearance with it off.

ps: I'm using an NVidea 560M with 3GB Ram and my performance is excellent.

Hmmm, it makes no difference on my machine at all?

[Glenn Woodward]

Here are mine.

Render: 2 sec
Render + shadows: 24 sec
Watercolor + line: 20sec
Watercolor + line + shadows: 65 sec
Raytrace: 36 sec

What are the standard raytrace settings?

The big differences in times seem to be the watercolor+line+shadows - mine seem ultra fast compared to others with times like 10 minutes! Are we all using the same technique?

[ambrozac]

Standard Render............................................ ...... .35 sec
Standard Render-Final View w/Shadows.................16.97 sec
Watercolor w/Line Drawing...................................13.72 sec
Watercolor w/Line Drawing-Final View w/Shadows...43.24 sec
Raytrace (Default)......................................... .....54.00 sec

Used camera provided in the plan. Screen size is 1570x648, except for Raytrace, which is 640x480. Times
and screen size taken from the status bar. Raytrace time taken from the top.

Gateway Desktop PC FX6800-01e
i7 920 2.67 GHZ 6MB Ram
Windows Vista Home premium (x64) SP2
Nvidia GeForce GTS 250

[Gary Doski]

Preferences/Render, top half of the dbx.

[CARMELHILL]

I'll try these Watercolor tests tomorrow when I get to the office and update my times.

[Doug Park]

Size of the monitor matters.

The screen should not redraw when moving the mouse.

This may be caused by any number of things including mouse drivers. I never install the mouse driver that comes with the mouse unless I'm trying to debug a problem that they cause.

[Dermot Dempsey]

Actually, what usually matters most for both render and raytrace views is the resolution of the monitor (or the Chief window if you are not full screen). It's really all about the number of pixels needed.

[PhoenixConstruction]

So this whole test thing is bogus?

[dshall]

So this whole test thing is bogus?

Yeppers, I think so.

[Gary Doski]

Ok, there goes the bench mark!

My is a 32" Acer 1920 x 1080

I wonder if there is a way to a common ground so we can really see what performs best?

[Joe Carrick]

Actually, what usually matters most for both render and raytrace views is the resolution of the monitor (or the Chief window if you are not full screen). It's really all about the number of pixels needed.

Dermot,

I've been considering getting a 40" LCD TV to use for Chief in my office. Would this be a bad idea?
Would it severely degrade speed of render views compared to a 20" monitor?

[Gary Doski]

Dermot,

I've been considering getting a 40" LCD TV to use for Chief in my office. Would this be a bad idea?
Would it severely degrade speed of render views compared to a 20" monitor?

that is what he said it would do.

[Joe Carrick]

that is what he said it would do.

OK, how much?