From: Chad Capeland <chad@tph-inc.com>
To: MAX List <3dsmax@EngramDigital.com>
Subject: Re: dual proc doubts
Date: Friday, April 21, 2000 7:37 PM

But both applications you listed only do realtime renders.  The accuracy
needed for the renders is MUCH lower than would be neccessary for
photorealistic renders.

It's not a driver issue at all.  The actual rendering software has to be
written to take advantage of the hardware.  Max's renderer does not.  Trust
me, they'll start supporting CPU extended instruction sets long before they
start utilizing hardware 3D.  Only specialty renderers like RenderGL can use
the hardware, and RenderGL suffers from poor image quality.

All the benchmarks on Intense3D's site are for low quality realtime renders,
like the kind you see in your viewport, or when you click "make preview."
There are no benchmarks listed for finish quality renders.

-Chad Capeland
 The Production House, Inc.
 chad@tph-inc.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Russell Jennings <russell0@hotmail.com>
To: <3DSMAX@engram.net>
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 3:35 PM
Subject: RE: dual proc doubts


>
> >So how does the rendered image get passed BACK from the video card to be
> >placed in the image file on the hard drive eh?  Isn't it generally a one
> >way
> >trip to the monitor for graphics data when it goes to the video card?
>
> The same way data can go to and from a SCSI card, or a sound card, or any
of
> the other slots in the motherboard.  Now, I use Max and Maya.  I have a
riva
> TNT2 Card, and I've never swapped it out with a POS 4 meg video card to
see
> the difference, but I spoke to our resident graphics expert here at Dell
> (He's the trainer for the workstation department, and is very familiar
with
> almost every 3d app ppl use on our systems.)  He is the one who told me
that
> certain apps (Like Pro engineer) can be written to use a hardware
renderer.
> Just like not all apps have a dual threaded renderer, not all of them have
a
> hardware renderer.  In order to gain the benefit, you have to have the
right
> app, and the correct drivers installed.  For example, Autocad 13 will also
> use the Diamond Fire GL1 card to improve rendering times.  Unfortunately,
I
> do not have specific URLS to point ya'll too.  If ya don't take my word
for
> it, I'll understand :)
>
> Russ
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