08-18-2006, 09:29 AM
This may be true of Afterburn but our primary renderer is finalRender and when HT is enabled render times are almost halfed in some cases.
The problem is that single cpu systems with HT enabled or disabled there is negligible difference with afterburn but on a dual processor system the difference is massive. For some reason this does not become an issue on win2003 server but does on winXP.
To disable HT is a laboriuos process of going into the bios on each render node. For some reason the suprermicro bios on these machines takes ages to get into and it is not something you want to be doing regularly.
fume fx is looking very good by the way.
The problem is that single cpu systems with HT enabled or disabled there is negligible difference with afterburn but on a dual processor system the difference is massive. For some reason this does not become an issue on win2003 server but does on winXP.
To disable HT is a laboriuos process of going into the bios on each render node. For some reason the suprermicro bios on these machines takes ages to get into and it is not something you want to be doing regularly.
fume fx is looking very good by the way.