BrianG opened this issue on Aug 20, 2007 · 5 posts
keenart posted Mon, 20 August 2007 at 11:04 PM
bruno is correct, Pro and Esprit are 32 bit apps, and do not use memory as efficiently as does Inf and xStream. And they can only use 2 CPU cores compared to Inf and xStream so are much slower at processing scenes than the other two apps. Additionally, the ecosystem and layering of materials is also not as poly efficient and therefore takes additional time to render.
Again, a low poly count does not indicate a quick render. On the contrary I have created scenes with only 60,000 polys with two Displacement materials, that took 22 hours to render. Catch 22!