Yes folks!

The latest 6.1 update of Bryce fixes the "render to disk" option that i love so much in previous versions.

You do need to set the render priority to HIGH or it won't work.

Worth the download time alone. :)

Thanks to the Daz team!

Alex,

The render time was soooo fast that poor old taskbar couldnt keep up with the percentage completed.

See pic!.  The pop up screen for this render was always 30-40% ahead of the taskbar results at the bottom.

:)

Lol, cool!

Time for me to splurge and upgrade to a dual core....

well i've tried it several times and i "think" Bryce 6.1 displays the single core render time on the taskbar and the dual core inside Bryce window.

lolol

ohh well!

:lol:

Ooh, interesting as I'm just about to buy a new machine and it's dual core :)

Just out of interest are there any advantages to rendering to disk rather than rendering to screen?

I believe some have reported a slightly faster render time when rendering to disk.

But, with rendering to screen, you can stop a render, save, and restart your rendering another day if you wish.

Rendering to disk also allows you to set a specific dpi setting to render at.

That's my thinking but I did wonder.

AGOR did a post in his gallery some weeks ago with some interesting numbers comparing several renders to screen and to disk.

I've been rendering to disk myself, recently, and it is a bit faster. Can't interrupt the render to resume later, but it depends how you want to interrupt... for instance on my desktops and laptop, i've been suspending or hibernating if I need to turn the computer "off".

As of last week, I've been rendering just with Bryce Lightning and rather that now.

I normally render to screen, unless it just has to be render to disk. Because, if I leave a render going overnight, then get up the next morning and Bryce lied to me about how long the render was going to take....and it is still rendering, and I then need my PC for other stuff, I absolutely will need to resume rendering later.

It also means if you need to stop a render halfway through to upgrade Bryce to version 6.1 because the baby has woken you up so many times in the middle of the night that you can't sleep any more then you can :)

Rofl, yeah.

Any reports on Bryce with a Core 2 Duo?? I Plan to upgrade in a few months time..I'm just doing my research now for what components to get.

An Intel Core 2 Duo is different than a Dual Core am I right?

I've got an Intel Duo Core 6400 with 2Gb or RAM which runs very quickly.  I've been really impressed with the render times I've been getting (although the only thing I've got to compare it to was my old AMD 2.4GHz with 1 Gb RAM).  Bryce 6 (and 6.1) definitely maxes out both cores and takes a pretty fair chunk of the RAM too.

If you have a couple of test renders (preferably something that isn't going to take toooooo long to render) drop me an email with them on it and I'll tell you how long it takes to render on my box.

Attached Link: Bryce 6 Benchmarks

Check out the link and scroll through, those INTEL chips look good!

Alex,

Sweet!! that is great information. Thanks for the link.

Yeah, Intel came back strong with those Duo Core's. Making AMD scramble a bit, lol.

Well the next cycle of CPU technology will have 1 or both of what I'm about to mention.

1. GPU Built into CPU.  With AMD buying out ATI and Rumored Intel buying Nvidia.  We can see highend video built into a GPU/CPU Package.

2. For those old enough to Remember the 386 and 387 processors you will remember that you could install a 386 Processor and if you needed some number crunching power, you would purchase and install a Co-Processor.

Well it look like technology is going back in that direction, some sort of co-processing setup.

You will hear and know about in a year or so and you will remember that you read it in this forum :)

I wish it had gone the other way. I prefer AMD cpu's and Nvidia video.

Yeah, it will go that way, I've already seen the first monitor that runs not off a video card connection but a PC's USB and the CPU. Right now that would be lame to own, but later....