Quote - > Quote - Looks like another nice improvement.  Had a scene running in RC2 at 37 kS/s and 70 kC/s.  Restarted it after installing RC3 and it's moving along at 108 kS/s and 206 kC/s. 

 

I KNEW I WAS GOING TOO SLOW!!

 

I run at 1.05 kS/s and 5.1 kC/s - no wonder it takes me forever to do a render!

 

I know my machine is old but I am not sure it should run this slow. I have a 2.0 Ghz dual core with 4gig ram running windows 7 premium 64 bit.

Anyone have any insight?

My old laptop is very similar to yours in specs, though I've never used it for Lux.

A good way to test for speed (at least in my experience) to load just one object with a texture of some sort and an IBL. This will at least let you set a base line for what you can expect to get out of your rig.

OR--

There's a program called LuxMark, which operates very similar to any standard benchmark program. This will spit out a rumble of numbers to test the 'power' of your set-up. Frankly, I prefer the IBL approach.

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