Anyone done a timing test to determine the efficiency of the networked rendering in the new version? If it takes me 10 minutes on one computer, how long on two ~identical computers?

well i have a dual p2 @ 333 and a amd 750 .. depending on the scene will general be about half the time..

Thanks for the reply. Does Bryce use the dual cpu's? or, is it limited to one per computer? Bryce only mentions parallel via LAN connections.

From what I understand (I don't have dual CPU's) Bryce uses 1 CPU while you can setup Lightning to use the other.

Pardon my ignorance, but what is Lightning? and why would you run it the same time as the Bryce rendering engine?

Bryce Lightning is the add-on that help Bryce doing rendering with other computers on a network Each computer render a small square doing the picture. For a 800x600 picture you have around 44 square to render and this is shared around the network. I you have a Dual CPU system you can use near the maximum of the 2 cpu power for rendering, i get around 99% of use when i do that. If you have a Intel or AMD cpu adn using windows 2000/XP http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=408313 This is the post that explain what to do. At home i use Bryce and Bryce Lighting on my Dual CPU and on the network i use another Single CPU system. SO we could say i have the rendering capability of 3 computers. The rendering take about 2 to 2.5 half the time required with one cpu. I have asked the questions to a person from the Bryce team at Corel that made a visit her. Look on top of the thread "Spotlight with Conan Hunter-program manager for Bryce 5", Does Bryce support dual cpu, He said the code was created but was too big to implement in the current version of Bryce, by what i could understand it could be included on the next version of Bryce. My two cents. DenisG DenisG

Just what I was looking for. At home, I'll have two computers while at work I've got a dual-CPU and a bunch of singles...at night! Found the Lightning download at corel.com. I'll search for docn. I've had good experiences with parallel-processing matrix solvers (same computer, across LAN) so was hoping that Bryce had something similar. Thanks for the reference to the earlier posting with the instructions. When I get it up, I'll let you know.

bryce does use both cpu's(or either it is emulated in the nt based kernel) as the one guy running bryce and lightning on the same system.. it probaly lowers you render speed.. taking up more video and real memory than than needed.. my dual p2's @ 333 renders about 25% faster then my amd 750 with the process set in below normal mode.. in real time mode that figure goes up some .. but not by much.... as far as running bryce and lightning on the same comp.. i have never tried it .. i am just basing my remark from running multiple instances on a dual processor machine and spliting them apart and running each instance one each processor which has always givin lower marks then running one instance on both :)

Where is Litning aquired from? = )

Its on Bryce 5 first CD, browse and you will find it.