Flame fractals are very RAM intensive when calculating. The more iterations, the deeper zooms, lots of fine lines, larger sized images, will all make your machine work harder. Sometimes it will try to take over every byte and it will stall everything else that you are trying to do. This will happen both when you are working on the image and when you render it to disk.

Sometimes...and only on occasion...if you set up an image, then close the program and reopen it, it will calculate the render to disk faster than if you just go from designing the image to rendering it.

Hope that helps.

Message edited on: 05/04/2005 21:19

Fractals will always amaze me!