[kitoc]

Hi all!

Im really enjoying the new Beta. Very good work NL!!!

Ok here it goes: Ive got 2 computers:

One laptop (Dell Inspiron 9200, 1,7GHz 1Gb ram), and one
Dell Dimension 8300 (3GHz 2Gb ram) with Hyperthreading

Usually with the MW Alpha, my "big" comp was significally faster than my laptop, as one would expect, but with Beta 1.2.1 they are rendering with the same speed (reaching the different levels in the same amount of time).

At first I thought yeah yeah coincidence, but Ive tried several test, with the exact same scene file. I created a MXS file for each machine.

One thing I noticed was that the "slow" machine worked mostly on the harddrive (the scene got swapped out), while the "fast" had the whole scene in RAM?!?

This is strange indeed? Have any of you seen this problem? Maybe I got a virus just as I updated to Beta 1.2.1 (not likely =) ).

Its hard to pinpoint this issue, but maybe some of you with different machines could test this? Maybe some probs with the Hyperthreading?

Anyway the new Beta is Ultrafast =)

Regards,
Kim

[kitoc]

Sorry I forgot to mention Im using Cinemaxwell plugin...

Regards,
Kim

[kitoc]

Hi again!

I think I found the problem. I used the timestamps in the console, and suddenly I remembered that you cant trust those . I'll make a test with my stop watch...

Regards,
Kim

[kitoc]

Thanks for your test Adam! I tested some more myself with a RL watch, but believe it or not: my machines are rendering at the same speed?!?!

With the Alpha version, the fast machine was app. 40% faster.

So this is weird?! Ill examine my big comp to find the reason (I hope).

--Kim