3DS Max + "Enable SSE"

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• DeadlyDarkness0 Posts: 0Member

  April 2007 #2

  Did a few tests with my version of Max (version 7, but still pretty much the same). Rendered a scene, 1:03 without SSE, 1:00 with. Shaved about 3 seconds off the time on average. I use a dual core Athlon X2 clocked at 2.4 however, but I'm sure they use the same instruction sets, minus the video encoding ones. Basically I believe, it makes a very small difference, but you might as well leave it on.
• RedEye0 Posts: 0Member

  April 2007 #3

  I think a properly set up mr will render motion blur a lot faster than scanline. It's definitely not the easiest renderer to learn though.
• DeadlyDarkness0 Posts: 0Member

  April 2007 #4

  I myself never use motion blur in my animations, since if an object is going fast enough, it'll blur naturally. Motion blur is really for stills in my oppinion, but it could probably exaggerate certain effects in specialist cases (bet it'd be good for a BSG style camera zoom effect).
• Yaric0 Posts: 0Member

  April 2007 #5

  I would use MR but for some reason the mesh i'm using, the textures don't work well with MR and have all these weird specular errors and crap. Anyways, i ended up having to use scanline. I guess i'll just let this thing finish and then turn on SSE for future renders.
  
  The Athlon X2 has the same SSE set as the intels, but they lack behind with the new SSEs like SSE2, SSE3, SSE4. But 3D max only uses the first SSE as of now I believe.
• DeadlyDarkness0 Posts: 0Member

  April 2007 #6

  My family of chip supports SSE, SSE 2 and SSE 3, lacks the 4 support however. If you want faster render times, I'd try overclocking your processor, a 10% overclock directly equates to a 10% reduction in render time. I had mine running at 2x 2.82Ghz, which is basically a 840Mhz overclock. Reduced render times by a great deal, but my memory let me down in that it over the period of a day severe corruption would occur and I'd have to do a cold shutdown. But the core 2's are famously good overclockers with a good motherboard, even with standard cooling you could probably do at least a 20% overclock with no problems. Just remember to look up memory dividers, hyper transport frequencies and memory timings, those are the main causes of instability.
• havgunwilltravel0 Posts: 0Member

  April 2007 #7

  if u have pennies to spend look into this, this might help a little bit.....
  
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• Yaric0 Posts: 0Member

  April 2007 #8

  I actually did have mine overclocked when i was rendering out before. Had it at 3.11Ghz. But it had some sort of error when i rendered something for days last time so i decided to just put it back to stock 2.4 and let it do it's thing. Hopefully no errors. I could probably just overclock to around 3.0 and be alright, but i dunno.
  
  Oh, and i wouldn't bother with that quad opteron system, pretty sure intel already blows that out of the water, and in about 6months - 1 year crap will be ridiculous. 8 cores in one chip, then a while after that the Nehalem processor with 16 cores.
  
  I hope AMD gets their stuff together and cranks out some good stuff soon or else they're gonna be in trouble.
• havgunwilltravel0 Posts: 0Member

  April 2007 #9

  :shiner: AMD all the way DUDE!!! if it wasent that quadcore intels were so danm expensive........ and ur right, technology is changing all the time. recently read an artical about a chip manufacturer experimenting with micro-lasers being used to replace the ON_OFF switches within a processor core giving it exponetional processing power over anything that intel or AMD or anyone els can do....
• Zardoz2 Posts: 0Member

  April 2007 #10

  Ahtlon 64 family (64, X2 and FX) soport :
  MMX, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, AMD64, Cool'n'Quiet, NX Bit
  
  And the most modern versions of these CPUs supported SSE3.