From: Russell Jennings To: 3dsmax@engramdigital.com <3dsmax@engramdigital.com> Subject: Re: Video rendering Date: Friday, April 21, 2000 5:22 PM >Hello folks, > >would someone mind telling me how a video card is going to >accelerate rendering to a FILE? > >I can seel all kinds of ways that one might assist rendering to >the SCREEN, every 3D Accelerator out there does that. But what >is the physical pathway to the hard drive? I do not believe >such a thing exists. Ya prolly aren't gonna take my advice, but I'll offer it anyway. It's pretty simple. Just like more RAM can increase rendering, or, as you've said, a rendering card does. Data can (and will) go both ways through a video card. AGP and PCI are both two way slots. So, a properly threaded app can send rendering data to the video card, which would process it, and then could send it back, similar to a network render. 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