Richard60 posted at 10:01 AM Mon, 8 May 2023 - #4464688

You can get the box back if you don't render in progressive mode.  However, all cores will be put to work on the same box.  This is to prevent one core from being left along to finish a complex section while the rest of the cores sit idle.  But given that there does not appear to be any change in the quality of the render between the two modes and that with progressive you can spot a flaw early on and cancel and fix rather than wait till the image is 3/4 finished to see the flaw, that should save time.

I too liked the little blue boxes, not sure why but I have soon changed to, and happy with, progressive mode for all the reason you have given.  You can see some mistakes very early on, usually after only a few samples.  Lighting takes longer but then I tend to do a small area render to check that before rendering the whole scene.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.