I started rendering a 800x600 picture on 9/14/01 and it's only at 46% as of this morning. It has poser charactors and a couple of horses, an evening scene with alot of lights. Last night we had a bad storm and I was praying the lights wouldn't flicker as to lose all that was already done, rendered to disk. My question is , that since Bryce 5 is so slow (I'm about ready to go back to 4) can parts of the scene be done by itself and then taken into Photoshop and reasembled using layers? Would this be faster? I hate leaving my Dell on during lighting storms as it can be "hazard to it's well being" Thanks

I have 4 and I have been rendering a scene with 3 poser figures and 3 lights now for 18 hours (it's very big though, 300 dpi and 2370 pixels)So that "might" have something to do with it. LOL!!! Still, I wish it was faster too.

Buy a UPS unit - under a $100 - will protect from power outages, brown outs, spikes & with the trip-lite brand - your phone line goes in & if lighting hits the phone lines - your puter, monitor, etc are protected.

hewsan has the answer... I bought a ups years ago..and its saved my arse many times! BT

Ive got a ups 650 which has saved many a picture of the last year or so. I hear my roomate cursing from a 2 sec power but yet im still online and powered up. Only issue is that even the 650 is good for about 17mins if my monitor is on, if your asleepor away and theres a extended power outage, you still will eventually get shut down.

well, finally after almost 48 hours, My render is done... I do have an uPS thank god!

Get a 1.4 athlon !

if I could afford a new computer, I would get one... what's an Athlon?

Ok its a fast processer or cpu, originally i had an 800athlon processer and upgraded it to a 1.4ghz athlon.I did a render with the 800 athlon which took 26hours doing the same render with the 1.4thlon took only 14.5 hours so if you want faster renders with b4 or b5 upgrade you pc if thats what you use with a faster cpu.