Quote - Does anyone know if P7 will take advantage of an hyperthreading pentium 4?  Also, will P7 run on a 64 OS like vista?

 

On my HT (p4 3.2, with 4 gigs of RAM) machine it uses 100% of the CPU in Task Manager (as opposed to 50% in all previous poser versions) and you see it rendering to different areas of the image at a time.  

HOWEVER, towards the end it drops back down to 50% for some reason and basically kills any advantage.  I have timed renders with 2 and 4 threads (and also as a separate process) and the render times are IDENTICAL to it using a single thread.  :(  Major disappointment.  Not sure why this would be the case.

-Tim

P.S. Actually, having it in a seperate thread makes it a tad slower.