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#Slow 3ds on AMD486?

    21-Sep-95 08:53:43
Sb: #Slow 3ds on AMD486?
Fm: Kimtak Lee 74004,2505
To: all
I have got 2 machines running 3ds R3. A frame renders on the 486DX2-66 in under a minute. The same frame takes 5 mitues on an AMDDX4-100. I am using the star ixp as part of the image. I can't figure out what is slowing the DX4-100 down. There is sufficient memory on both machines to render without swapping to disk. The literature mentions that the ipas routines need an intel math co-processor. Is the co-processor in the AMD chip an Intel or Weitek? Thanks Larry Lee