X4 Ray Tracing - Optimal CPU

[Doug Park]

If you are running two instances of Chief and seeing improvements it is probably because to don't have "Optimize for Ray Tracing" selected in preferences. With two cores your result is expected if you have "Optimize for Chief" selected.

Longer send to layout times are due to several things. One is that in version 10 the algorithm would give up when it couldn't figure out how to sort surfaces. This would result in a number of odd line artifact issues. The other is that the model in X4 is often quite a bit more detailed. The good news is that this operation is also multi-threaded in X4 so if you have more cores it will go faster.

So while it may take longer to send to layout you shouldn't need to spend as much time manually cleaning up elevations as in the past.

For anyone that does find issues that need to be manually cleaned up please send them to support so we can resolve them. Surprisingly few of these ever get reported. Most of the cases reported have been corrected.