Rendering to window versus file location-- and how would you fix this render?

blue6string

I rendered a 800 x 800 to a file location and it easily took 1.5 hrs (i didn't do the stopwatch so thereabouts)

Then I was wondering If I could improve quality by rendering at 1000x1000 and just shrinking things in photoshop to the right pix size.

So I took the same scene and rendered it 2000x2000, just so that the difference would be exaggerated enough for me to notice. But by accident I rendered to the window instead of a file location. I was surprised when the scene rendered atleast 30minutes faster!

Is this typical?

Jaderail

It will depend on your CPU Speed and your DRIVE write speed. The save to file can only write as fast as your drive cache empties, your screen will display almost as fast as the data is written to the temp folder depending on your GPU. So if your PC can do TO window and still have the needed free ram it will often be faster. But that also will depend on what you are rendering at the time. Some items are just SLOW to render due to maps, lighting and other factors.

blue6string

Never even considered that the location was to a 7year old external harddrive, yikes! ... Makes sense

mjc1016

blue6string said:

Never even considered that the location was to a 7year old external harddrive, yikes! ... Makes sense

Yep...that WILL make a difference. That may barely be a USB2 drive and most likely isn't a fast SATA...probably a pretty small cache. Snails move faster than that thing...