I wanted to ask this before doing anything..i am going to be upgrading my computer before long, want to get up in with the times.
Now one main question i have about bryce 6 is, will there be any problems with duel core processor.

What i am plan on getting.

Athlon 64 X2 5200+ 2.6 GHz, Socket AM2 65W 
Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3 Motherboard, Socket AM2+
4GB DDR2 667MHz  2x2gig blocks : i know some will state this is to much, other reasons for getting 4 gig.
8600 GT, GeForce 8600 GT, 256MB, DDR3, PCIe-16, TV out, DVI, HDTV, SLI ready

Running Bryce 6.1 on a Duel Core 3.4ghz with Windoze XP Pro. & 4gig ram.
No problems here.

Dumb question from a "heretic" ;)
Is Bryce6, 64 bit or only 32?

If not, they better add that to Bryce7 when it comes out, as. 64 bit and 8 gig ram is AWESOME in apps that can handle it, night and day difference.
throws bazillions of items into a scene and it doesn't slow down :)

OOOhh...ah...urm.......good question. 32bit I think.

I am running Bryce 6.1 on my quad core windows XP64 and 4 gb memory with no problems

Quote - Running Bryce 6.1 on a Duel Core 3.4ghz with Windoze XP Pro. & 4gig ram.
No problems here.

I always thought that XP could only see upto 3gigs of ram..

Quote - Dumb question from a "heretic" ;)
Is Bryce6, 64 bit or only 32?

If not, they better add that to Bryce7 when it comes out, as. 64 bit and 8 gig ram is AWESOME in apps that can handle it, night and day difference.
throws bazillions of items into a scene and it doesn't slow down :)

How much is enough though? For yearsadvances in PC hardware have promised to speed things up for us, only for the damned software producers to slow things down again..... :lol:

Only if you have 32 bit I have 64 bit windows. and it is a quad core four of them

I got 4gigs but the system uses 800mb for graphic/memory & stuff hence this screen grab of my Pc's properties.
(Click the pic to see it better)

the extra memory must be creating those black blotches...;)

LOl we don't want to give you all our serial numbers now do we

Sandy's is 456756645678098tiynigkerjdggkd-4255546367534589578441222126657775645htydfgredgffgnggll.

...'cept on tuesdays when the number is: 1232230796855945000---0jfktihdnkgoyiruicantgetenoughsex.

:b_funny:

:b_tonguewink:

Thanks all fore your replies..this as helped me make my mind up...now its the waiting game till 8th of Feb, till the bank clears an international cheque...6 working weeks i have to wait.

@ Sndcastie

How much faster renders do you estimate having gone to quad core?

And explain to this computer illiterate the difference in XP pro and XP pro x 64 as it relates to cg software.

You are asking me who is about as illiterate as you I just told them what I wanted it for and this is what they suggested when I had it built. I did know I wanted a quad and 4 gb ram as I am tired of having to upgrade and prebuilt ones sucked. They told me to go to 64 bit as 32 only recognizes up to 3 gb of memory. The renders are faster I have only done one. LOL but the multi tasking rocks. :O) before it would really slow me down to almost a crawl.

All my programs work on the 64 bit except corel officex3 it won't even install.  But Bryce,Poser,PSP10,PainterX and Vue6 pro all work fine.

On the PC it took a lot less, can't remember the exact time but it felt like about half the time.

CD
(Hiding from Mac users)

You have to have a 64 bit OS,and an app that is truly 64 bit, to get all the use. Otherwise the app will only use 2 gig, and rest be used for WIndows and other apps.

Vista Ultimate will install non-64 bit apps into a seperate program file folder.

Example: Photoshop CS2 is 32 bit, but, because of some tweaks in it's code, it can use a full 4gig of ram if you have it on a 64 bit machine, but it is not a 64 bit app.
Confusing, lol

Vue is 64 bit, Think Rhino is too?