Well I was doing some renderings and noticed and odd time difference. So I did test to see the difference between rendering to disk vs. rendering to screen.

I loaded the standard Lancaster plane model(that comes with Vue) and centered it on the screen. I set it to render at 640x480 at final quality. I know, not very big of a test but that is all I had time for. :) Anyway, here are the results.

Render to disk: 1min 34sec
Render to screen: 53sec

Now that is not that big of a deal when you look at it, but it does explain a render I was working it. It was a very big scene with fancy poser figures. I never let it finish rendering but the estimate to disk after 30 mins into the render was 3hrs. But I stopped it and rendered it to screen and it was done in 1 1/2 hours.

Has anybody else tested this out to see if they too are noticing a very large difference in render times?