This is a great rendering program I ran into and it can crash even some of the thought to be stable systems...running 2x instances of this on my system can generate the same high temps as prime95...for ultimate stability testing have prime95 running in the background in a 1 instance testing or superpi 32mb....
Download the program at www.povray.org in the download page....download the benchmark.ini file as well and after installing POV-Ray place the file in the program files/POV-Ray for Windows v3.5/scenes/advanced/ directory....
The launch the program....
Go into the options menu and uncheck "keep single instance"...This will allow you to open another POV-Ray program for HT testing and 100% stress testing....
Now go to Start - Run - type CMD in the command line..It will tae you to a DOS environment...
type cd...
type cd...
then type cd program files/POV-Ray for Windows v3.5/bin
then type pvengine -a
this will lauch a second app...
NOw go into the render menu....click Edit settings/render...under ini file hit browse and go into the program files/POV-Ray for Windows v3.5/scenes/advanced folder and click the benchmark ini file....
now in the command line type +SR0.0 +ER0.5.....(this is basically telling it to take the first half of the rendering of the proect....
dont hit render yet!!!!
Go into the second povray app...do same thing as above except in the command line hit +SR0.5 +ER1.0...this does the second half...A little inefficient as it will rerender line 192 twice but that likely makes less then 3-4 seconds in the overall time which is minute....
Now click render on the one and render on the other as close to together as possible....Now let run....
As a basis I get (2.4@3.5 292fsb, 3:2 (390ddr) cas 2,7,3,2 GAT enabled and CPC....Winxp no optimisation
Single instance = 26min 17sec
2x instances (1/2's) = 22min 45sec
overall improvement is 15.5%....
ONly funny thing is that when I ran 2 full instances it took 43min 19sec for an average of 21min 40sec each...Bu I guess the above format is better for actual use if someone wanted to apply it to a real rendering project other then the benchmark....The benchmark does not show the final pic or show it rendering...the pic is on the site it intent is to isolate the cpu and memory and not rely on a persons vid card rendering ability....
POst your time with cpu speed and OS used please...I
Download the program at www.povray.org in the download page....download the benchmark.ini file as well and after installing POV-Ray place the file in the program files/POV-Ray for Windows v3.5/scenes/advanced/ directory....
The launch the program....
Go into the options menu and uncheck "keep single instance"...This will allow you to open another POV-Ray program for HT testing and 100% stress testing....
Now go to Start - Run - type CMD in the command line..It will tae you to a DOS environment...
type cd...
type cd...
then type cd program files/POV-Ray for Windows v3.5/bin
then type pvengine -a
this will lauch a second app...
NOw go into the render menu....click Edit settings/render...under ini file hit browse and go into the program files/POV-Ray for Windows v3.5/scenes/advanced folder and click the benchmark ini file....
now in the command line type +SR0.0 +ER0.5.....(this is basically telling it to take the first half of the rendering of the proect....
dont hit render yet!!!!
Go into the second povray app...do same thing as above except in the command line hit +SR0.5 +ER1.0...this does the second half...A little inefficient as it will rerender line 192 twice but that likely makes less then 3-4 seconds in the overall time which is minute....
Now click render on the one and render on the other as close to together as possible....Now let run....
As a basis I get (2.4@3.5 292fsb, 3:2 (390ddr) cas 2,7,3,2 GAT enabled and CPC....Winxp no optimisation
Single instance = 26min 17sec
2x instances (1/2's) = 22min 45sec
overall improvement is 15.5%....
ONly funny thing is that when I ran 2 full instances it took 43min 19sec for an average of 21min 40sec each...Bu I guess the above format is better for actual use if someone wanted to apply it to a real rendering project other then the benchmark....The benchmark does not show the final pic or show it rendering...the pic is on the site it intent is to isolate the cpu and memory and not rely on a persons vid card rendering ability....
POst your time with cpu speed and OS used please...I