09-16-2006, 06:47 AM
Saying that Final Render is incresed speed due to Ht is not something i can confirm..
Even 2day in Stage1 R2 Alpha s their is still lots of Passes that are Single Threated ( they are getting less and less) ( preparing light , preparing surface scattering from light , Balancing photons , Scattering Objects for 3d motion blur , MTD preparation passes etc..etc..) ..
And as usual when that happend , only 1 and 1 only detected thread on the machine will be allocated and used to process theese render passes .. Alot of stuffs are like that in 3dsmax ( reactor , cloth ( gettingbetterin 9) tec...etc..) so i Highly suggest to turn off Any HT ( witch is really not worth it comparing to a dual core) on systems running max and rendering with stage1 ( or else 3rd party raytracers that i know of for that matter) ..
practical example: having a dual 3.2 Xenon with HT turned on will use 1\4 of the full potential during single threated processes while when turning it off ( bios) allows Half of the full power for the same single threated task ..
Even 2day in Stage1 R2 Alpha s their is still lots of Passes that are Single Threated ( they are getting less and less) ( preparing light , preparing surface scattering from light , Balancing photons , Scattering Objects for 3d motion blur , MTD preparation passes etc..etc..) ..
And as usual when that happend , only 1 and 1 only detected thread on the machine will be allocated and used to process theese render passes .. Alot of stuffs are like that in 3dsmax ( reactor , cloth ( gettingbetterin 9) tec...etc..) so i Highly suggest to turn off Any HT ( witch is really not worth it comparing to a dual core) on systems running max and rendering with stage1 ( or else 3rd party raytracers that i know of for that matter) ..
practical example: having a dual 3.2 Xenon with HT turned on will use 1\4 of the full potential during single threated processes while when turning it off ( bios) allows Half of the full power for the same single threated task ..
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