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Title: My new computer
Post by: Gforce on December 16, 2009, 05:47:19 PM
My computer recently died :( on me so I bought a band new one  ;D. This is a huge upgrade for me compared to my old dell dimension 4600. 2.4 ghz and 1 gig of ram. Now I have this link (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/HP+-+Pavilion+Desktop+with+AMD+Phenom%26%23153%3B+II+X4+Quad-Core+Processor/9549438.p?id=1218122580358&skuId=9549438) not an insane computer but the processor is quite nice. I've been away from the terragen scene for a while mostly because my old computer just wasn't up to populations or intense rendering but I hope to be able to dig a bit deeper than before. On one of my old files a crop render took over 2 hours to do, now I rendered the whole picture bigger in an hour  :). Terragen is much more fun when it doesn't take so long for the 3-d preview to load. So is anything new going on around here?     
Title: Re: My new computer
Post by: penang on December 17, 2009, 12:00:34 AM
Please help petition the Terragen people to make it GPU aware so to speed it up even more.
Title: Re: My new computer
Post by: rcallicotte on December 17, 2009, 06:48:46 PM
The newest version is a lot faster renderer.
Title: Re: My new computer
Post by: cyphyr on December 17, 2009, 07:06:29 PM
Try the Speed test (see my sig :) )to get a true comparison of your new PC's speed. It looks a fast setup but I dont know much at all about athalons.
Richard
Title: Re: My new computer
Post by: Gforce on December 18, 2009, 04:47:17 PM
Quote from: cyphyr on December 17, 2009, 07:06:29 PM
Try the Speed test (see my sig :) )to get a true comparison of your new PC's speed. It looks a fast setup but I dont know much at all about athalons.
Richard
Did you set the default render quality to one instead of .5?
Title: Re: My new computer
Post by: cyphyr on December 18, 2009, 06:21:00 PM
Just leave all the settings as it loads, and run the default render.
:)
Richard
Title: Re: My new computer
Post by: Gforce on December 20, 2009, 07:58:06 PM
It took 18 minutes and 2 seconds.