CompuServe Thread

Would that happen to be Fractal texture? Because if it is then from the way I understand it there is nothing you can do since the 040 has to software emulate transendental (sp?) functions of the FP which aren't Hardware present. Have you tried to compare scenes without textures or at least another texture? – comming to you from `here', where else?

Javier, there's good news and bad news. The good news is that Lightwave is designed to take advantage of acellerators with co-processors. The bad news is that there is no floating point co-processor on the 040 board, any operation which makes good use of it will be slower without one. It has been well documented on this forum and in Amia publications that texture mapping is much slower on the 040 than it is with an 030 w/co-processor.

Javier, The 040 is going to be slower on functions such as fractal noise and bumps. Make sure that you are running the FP version of LightWave (click on the about button and if it doesn't say "fp", you are running the slower version) If you are running the slower version, you need to rename LightWave.fp as LightWave (see Toaster Tricks colum in Avid – March or april issue). There is a new LightWave in the works which will take better advantage of 040's and things will be MUCH speeded up. –Jg