my computer has a 4 core cpu (AMD955 black ) each core runs at 800ghz,the system is windows 7 64 with 16gbts of memory .

The question is how do you get Bryce 7 pro to use all the cores and memory?

I ask because on my old system amd64x2 ran at 3200 rendered faster(32bit) xp

what I see is the 64x2 each core was 1600 and the new one is 800 

what do you guy's think?Is it some how possable to use the whole thing?

John

I can post the spec's if needed

thanks

The 955 Black Edition should run @ 3200 MHz...

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EddyMI;

if you take 800MHz x 4 it is 3200MHz

the problem is Bryce seems to only use the first core?

I could be way off tho but if I had the knowledge to make it faster or get Bryce to use all cores ?I would be way happy .

the lowest downward arrow menu on the left of the bryce interface wil let you set priority to "high". That should tell Bryce to use all the cores of your machine. The other settings are so that you can use the computer for other things while rendering

Actually, it should be 3200 MHZ per core.

I did a test with my pc (AMD 8 Core) and all cores are used with Bryce 7.1. You can check with the Windows Task Manager.

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dyret when I use the high priority and all the rest of the top system things in bryce that when you can no longer use anything else.

eddyMI when I bought the cpu it was supposed to be 3200 per core ,my local comp guy says 800 per core ?,I told him he had to be wrong ,.dont go there any more.

if it would run at 3200 per core it would be like lighting WOW

so who to go to for the fix if any by the way that is the reason I did not upgrade to the 8 core .Mabe I should after all the board and system will handle it ok.

thanks

to run all the cores you have to use high prority. its the only way for bryce to do that. sorry

Quote - to run all the cores you have to use high prority. its the only way for bryce to do that. sorry

Sorry, but I don't agree. Bryce runs with all cores on my machine with normal priority.

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This is what my Intel Core 2 Quad (2.4 Ghz) does with different priority settings, rendering the same image. 4 Gig Ram.

 

And this is my AMD 8 core at normal priority (running a Carrara 8.5 Render

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ok. im not gonna argue any more.

on all settings mine used 100% cpu 3.66gb mem no matter what it was set to.I do not know if that is all cpus ?

thanks for the info and help

Going back to the original question, how to get bryce to use all cores...

Change your render priority to high.

Bryce on Low will use one core.

On medium will use half of your cores up to 8.

On high will use all of your cores up to 8.

Bryce will use actual cores to 80 percent or so.

Bryce will use virtual cores up to 10-15 percent.

Bryce will not use a second CPU.

I think your AMD is not multi threaded, so you just have actual cores and on High it should use all.

You'll find render priority in the lower down arrow in this screen shot.

Bryce will use whatever RAM it needs and 16g is way overkill.  You're fine in that department.

@EricOfSD.

You say "Bryce on Low will use one core."

That's not strictly true.

If you look at and click to enlarge the image I posted above of the 3 different priority settings you will see that Low priority actually uses all 4 cores, although the graph is more erratic.