Quote - it wasnt render quality i was concerned about 3dneo, it was the picture i made that was awful.  Nothing to do with vue, all down to me and lack of sleep/time :P

I havent run it through to the end with a renderfarm yet becuase I had to get it to a deadline and it felt quicker/more sensible to use a single pc than half of my faster processor and a much slower processor to do the same job.

I can try doing the renderfarm again and see if it goes up to 100% when out of prepass or if it keeps to 50% all the time.

OK, thanks for clearing up the render quality part because I thought you were saying you could actually see a difference in quality between a networked render and a single computer render and that should never be happening.

I would be interested in hearing your results when you do it again. From what I thought, it should use the full power of the main computer then distribute the rest over all computers networked so it should be going at full capacity I would think for all of them (just divided over the distributed systems).

Jeff

Development on: Mac Pro 2008, Duel-Boot OS - Snow Leopard 10.6.6 & Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon , 10GB 800 MHz DDR2 RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT.