for normal scene included in this alpha version it take 1 min for me for rendering without shadows and 1.20 with shadows if I good remember. I rendered image on standard 800x600 pixels, the render works quick if you don't use to much transparent materials but that is with all software around. Michale 3 with high resolution textures, time 1.44 with shadows and 0.24 without shadows so very quick. No crashes and everything working fine. I run D|S on: Operating System: Windows XP BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG Processor: Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.00GHz (2 CPUs) Memory: 1024MB RAM Page File: 295MB used, 2166MB available DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0b (4.09.0000.0902) DxDiag Version: 5.03.0001.0902 32bit Unicode ---- --------------- Display Devices --------------- Card name: RADEON 9800 PRO Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc. Chip type: RADEON 9800 AGP DAC type: Internal DAC 400MHz Display Memory: 128.0 MB Cath

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