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bt3d

01-21-2004, 07:49 AM

Hi,

is it possible that LW 7.5c renders much faster than 7.5?

I've build up a new workstation (P4 3 GHz / 2 GB RAM) and thought it is time to give 7.5c a chance after the desaster of my last try with 7.5b, which was very unstable. So I did the update and was very impressed by the rendering speed.
But it is very unstable too. I had many crashes, even freezes of W2K pro. Mostly on exiting the Layouter. I've search some forums and found that others had also the problems, and there seems to be no solution. So I decided to downgrade to 7.5 again. Now it works much more stable. But it seems that the render speed is much slower. Is this possible? Has Newtek did some speedoptimations to the renderengine of 7.5c? Anyone an idea to get 7.5c more stable?

Regards

Tim

js33

01-21-2004, 08:33 AM

I never tried 7.5c after hearing of the unstableness. I gathered that the 7.5b and 7.5c were the new dev teams first attempt to update the Lightwave code. I think at this point the best way to increase the stability of 7.5c is to wait for 8.

Cheers,
JS

bt3d

01-21-2004, 03:45 PM

Thanks JS, you are right, this seems to be the only way. But I also wonder that some people seems to have no problems with 7.5c.

Regards

Tim

Finkster

01-21-2004, 03:54 PM

Sorry, hadn't noticed much of a speed difference, though I have been working on LARGE renders myself. btw, no stability problems here on WinXP.

philstopford

01-21-2004, 10:05 PM

Originally posted by bt3d
Thanks JS, you are right, this seems to be the only way. But I also wonder that some people seems to have no problems with 7.5c.

Regards

Tim

It has annoying issues in terms of panels opening with the wrong settings shown, etc., but it has been relatively stable. The real issue is that there is, for me at least, real confusion over which Modeler LScripts would break were I to downgrade. It's just not clear to me and in the middle of the project, I'm opting to sit on 7.5c and just fire in bug reports to NT when I discover issues.

I was hoping for a 7.5d, but if NT can fire up a bugs fixed list, I might head for 8.0 before I the usual 6 month shakeout of issues has elapsed :)

grundgedanke

01-22-2004, 12:04 PM

mhh i couldn´t see any speed differents in both version. but i also don´t understand the problems with 7.5c. i have never had any probs.

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