#LW4.0 Inquiry
10-Aug-95 09:39:49
Sb: #118543-#LW4.0 Inquiry
Fm: Jim S. Roof 75460,2014
To: Kent S. Lidke 73122,301
I don't think it matters what card you are running, under Windows 3.x the speed
is about half of what it should be. NewTek knows this and they say that it is
being worked on. OTOH, if you run Windows NT, you'll get the 30fps. You will
also be pleasantly surprised at the overall render speed increase of all types
of scenes and the dramatic increase of others (I haven't pinned down just what
functions are faster under NT except shadow maps take less than half the time
to calculate). Examples:
1. Delorean scene on a 486DX4-100, 48megs, Win3.1 8:00
Identical scene on same machine but WinNT 3:40
2. Computer scene under 3.1 about 9:00
Computer scene under NT about 4:45
All are done with med res, low antialias, segment memory 8.8meg and no DOF,
motion blur or field rendering.
I plan on using NT for LW renders, if for nothing else.
Jim Roof