Greetings all.

  Okay, I've searched the boards a bit, but don't see a thread on this topic... comparing B6 to B7, which renders faster?

  I've got an underwater scene, dark, murky with a structure. Volumetric atmosphere, a "cloud" (volumetric material), HDRI, standard AA, and in B6 it took 4 hours to render, where as B7 the same thing is taking several hours longer.

  Has anyone posted a speed comparison? There was a lot of that going on when B6 was introduced. I haven't been around in a bit so I appologize for not seeing it if such a thread has been discussed already.

--Death

B7 was being faster to render than B6...   not sure what your settings were on..?

 B7..for sure...a bit..

Hrm, strange... The same file. Is there an advantage when it comes to speed if the file is saved in Br7 format? Or is there some new setting that should be selected on? I got Bryce using all the cores. Even rendering the scene in the thumbnail nano-viewer is slow in 7.

--Death

See my reply in Greetings thread.. ...

Quote - See my reply in Greetings thread.. ...

Greetings! Gosh I hope I didn't get some beta... I paid for that Pro version. Rats! I'll have to double check when I run home during lunch hour to check on the render.

--Death

If you bought it there should have been Content and Lightning in your Downloads at DAZ as well as the Program.. ...

Thanks Bobbystahr, I'll check that tonight.

There were four things to download (PC) including content and another for lightning. Two were huge files, I think a 500+ meg file and the other around 270 megs. When installing one of the large files wanted to replace/overwrite the previous large file installation. I did not allow, thinking I should first see what was installed before overwriting anything. Maybe that is the culprit. I'll check it out tonight after work.

--Death

Testing computers through render scenes in Bryce (version 5 and high).

http://www.bryce-3d.narod.ru/bryce_test_eng.html

I want to test some versions of Bryce.

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (Actual Frequency 2,4 GHz, quad-core processor), Win'XP SP2

DAZ Bryce 5.5c - Render time : 1 minute 48 seconds

DAZ Bryce 6.1 - Render time : 1 minute 07 seconds (Normal)
DAZ Bryce 6.1 - Render time : 0 minute 39 seconds (High)

DAZ Bryce 6.3 - Render time : 1 minute 41 seconds (Normal)
DAZ Bryce 6.3 - Render time : 0 minute 53 seconds (High)

DAZ Bryce 7 Pro - Render time : 1 minute 02 seconds (Normal)
DAZ Bryce 7 Pro - Render time : 0 minute 37 seconds (High)

From the three latest Bryce worst result for Bryce 6.3