What is multithreaded rendering?

Ands43 · 25 Jan 2011, 09:30

Does it mean I am using more of the (cores) power of the core2duo chip, so it should be faster?

Gaieus · 25 Jan 2011, 10:16

Yes. Most renderers that can do multithreded rendering can use as many cores/threads as you have in your computer simultaneously. See two examples in these screenshots.

Ands43 · 25 Jan 2011, 10:32

Could one of the cores be broken and this lead to it struggling with multithreaded rendering?

I rendered one drawing with it turned off and it took a long time but completed the rendering, I then rendered another image with MT turned on and it kicked me out, shutting down SU.

Gaieus · 25 Jan 2011, 10:33

Which renderer is it?

Chris Fullmer · 25 Jan 2011, 16:32

Do you have a reason to believe one of your cores is "broken"? (other than this incident)

Ands43 · 25 Jan 2011, 16:40

No not particularly just this happens reasonably often and I also had some autoCAD problems, which the AC forum thought was RAM/videocard. I'm just guessing really.

The renderer is podium.