This has been a pet bitch of mine for a long time, and I've brought it up several times in the past. Quite frankly, it shouldn't take longer to render to disk than to screen for three reasons: 1. I have several other 3D programs. None of them is slower writing to disk than to screen. 2. When rendering to disk, Vue doesn't have to worry about driving the video screen...constantly updating it to reflect the new rendered state. Because of this, Vue should be faster rendering to disk, not slower! 3. As far as I understand, even when you render to screen, Vue makes a temp file on your hard drive in order to allow you to do a "continue render". Have you ever noticed that Vue calculates render time differently for disk renders than it does for screen renders? On a screen render, Vue calculates the render time, and when finished, it anti-aliases the picture and calculates the anti-alias time. When through with that, Vue gives you the overall time it took for the anti-aliased render. When rendering to disk, Vue calculates the "overall time" to render AND anti-alias the picture. It doesn't treat rendering and antialiasing as two separate processes. It makes me wonder if Vue uses a different process to render to disk... -SMT

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