Mac Pro, processors, not maxed with using HDRI

[CRSA_890]

Under FQRW, the 4 cores max out at 100% each, and Activity Moniter shows VW using about 400% processor (4x100%).

But when I thrown in a HDRI file, and render it, Activity Monitor peaks at about 275% (split evenly between the 4 cores).

Then as a side, under Radiosity, only one core peaks at 100% and the remaining 3 are at 0%, so I assume is does not support dual processors? Is this a VW thing, and HRDI file thing, or something else?

[Peter van der Elst]

I totally agree! The Radiosity and HDRi renderings are taking too long on my Mac Pro as well (4 x 3GHz). HDRI is OK when you use the "low" setting though. Why can any 3d program render radiosity much quicker than Renderworks. I use Cheetah3d for rendering now, and it gives much better results in the fraction of the time. I hope this will be sorted in a next release.

Regards,

Peter

[mclaugh]

IIRC, RenderWorks uses the LightWorks rendering engine. While the LightWorks engine itself is multithreaded and multi-processor aware, at this point, most of the shaders do not support MT/MP.