From: Chad Capeland To: MAX List <3dsmax@EngramDigital.com> Subject: Re: dual proc doubts Date: Friday, April 21, 2000 11:51 AM ONLY if you use RenderGL. Max alone DOES NOT use the video card. I've run benchmarks on the subject, since we have a GMX 2000, and the only time a video card has made a difference is if you use RenderGL, a renderer that is only good for preview renders. The default Max scanline renderer and all the other plugin renderers I have tried don't care what video card you have. Why? Precision. Most software renderers use higher floating point precision than any 3D chips. So a hardware assisted renderer would have less floating point precision and thus suffer from numerous errors and anomolies. -Chad Capeland The Production House, Inc. chad@tph-inc.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Russell Jennings To: ; <3DSMAX@Engram.net> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 1:28 PM Subject: RE: dual proc doubts > Tim Said > > >actually, the graphics card has absolutely nothing to do with the rendering > >process.. > > I'm sorry, but that's simply not correct. A graphics card can make a > noticeable difference in rendering, especially if you're using the correct > drivers. The computer will pass data off to the card. Again, a Wildcat > 4110 has 4 Processors on it, which can significantly reduce rendering times. > > Russ > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > -- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe at: > http://mail.engram.net/guest/RemoteListSummary/3DSTUDIOMAX > List courtesy of http://www.Engram.net > -- Subscribe/Unsubscribe at: http://mail.engram.net/guest/RemoteListSummary/3DSTUDIOMAX List courtesy of http://www.Engram.net