Thanks for the replies guys.
QuoteTerragen is problematic using Wine. In fact my opinion of Wine is low.
A view also shared by our tech team, and being restricted to 32 bit is also a massive hindrance.
Cheers Matt,
Scene files were set to use more cores, and comparison times were compared with the same scene running on macs.
Shame you don't recall the build of wine you were using, but may also be a case of the flavour of linux too.
The tech team may yet look into a beta build of wine that might address the issue, but in the long run it looks like a poor option compared to windows. Unfortunately, the whole film pipeline is built around linux, and having a dual/triple OS environment is no small undertaking.
We were really up against it when we were testing all of this, and terragen came in to the show quite late on.
Thankfully though, the studio are so impressed with the results that they are looking at supporting terragen on a better platform.
We ended up leasing out a load of mac pro's for extra power.
Thanks again
Chris