Hi everyone, Would a faster Processor, or a 32 or 64mb video card help speed up the rendering process in Bryce or other 3D programmes, sorry if this is an ameteur question as i am just starting out. Can anyone recommend some good system combinations,thanks

This is a very good question! Your Graphic-Card has no Influence whatsoever to the Render-Time.The best thing you can do for reducing the render-Time is to get the fastest CPU you can afford. That's where the rendering happens. Getting more Ram isn't wrong neither.It's faster to read & write to Ram instead to your Hard-Disk. Because when you have a very large and/or complex scene and you have enough real RAM that the computer doesn't have to swap to the hard drive (using virtual memory). The only real way to reduce render time is to reduce scene complexity The big killers for render time are: 1) highly complex textures 2) volumetric materials 3) lots of light objects(!) 4) highly detailed imported DXF/OBJ meshes etc. Hope this will help... (thank you Flickerstreak & Zottel1 4 the info) StarDust

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Also, turn off volumetric world in the sky lab, its a killer. Sometimes, if its meant to be an indoor scene, I'll create a cube or sphere the size of the local universe (planetarium style) to cut down on the amount of light rays to trace (no horizon, no relections of horizon).

Got a new computer for X-mas, 1GHz with 512MB RAM. It improved my render times from 4-5 days to 8-12 hours. Yes, processor speed and RAM does help! Also, I went with an AMD processor, faster floating point calcualtion than Pentium III's.

Hey, look here: http://www.planet-3d.com/bmark.htm (I have a bunch of entries I need to add but the data that is there is still good) and here for more info. http://www.planet-3d.com/garage.htm PS: the video card may help when editing larger scenes since that is realtime graphics. PSS: My 1.2 GHz Athlon w/ 256 MB DDR ram and NVidia GTS card should arrive Tues.!!! I'll run the BMark on it and let you know. Should be a 'slight' improvement over my 300 MHz AMD ;-)

Number One: Any decent processor, a good one will help. Number Two:RAM, RAM, RAM, RAM, and lastly, more RAM.