Ok so I've been doing more tests and here are some results for you to chew on.

In previous tests results you could see that on a Pentium 4 Hyper Threading machine running at 3Ghz with 512MB of ram with Bryce 6.3 Host/6.3 Lightning it would take 10:25 To render the test scene.

I did the same test but switched Bryce Lightning 6.3 with 7.0.0.151 and end result is amazing, the render time went from 10:25 down to 7:06.

Another thing that I tired was to upgrade my Core 2 Duo T7500 @ 2.20 Ghz Laptop from Windows XP to Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit Version.

With Bryce 6.3 Host/6.3 Lightning I got 07:11 when I switched out Lightning with 7.0.0.151 render time went down to 04:12

So I decided to re-do my earlier test using all 6 PC's but using Lightning 7.0.0.151 and my total render time was reduced from 01:38 down to 01:04.

So now I'm curious what render times I would see if I upgraded all systems to Windows 7 64-Bit Edition.

I imagine I must his some kind of speed limitation because of my 100Mbit network infrastructure.

PS: I use Prio Watch a neat tool that remembers my Affinity and Priority settings so I dont have set them everytime.

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