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AJLynn · February 11th, 2008

I've never heard of it running on only one core under x64. I have XP32 at work and ran it for a while and it did work with all my cores... and it's supposed to be fine under x64... if I have a demo copy sitting around I'll install it at home and check. But the issue being discussed on that thread was that mental ray under Viz08 is limited to 4 cores (which seems like a horrible idea - they actually reduced it from 8 to 4 right when people were starting to buy 8-core computers - guess it's so they can sell more Max...) and a Q6600 has 4 cores, so you wouldn't have that problem.

February 11th, 2008	#2 (permalink)
AJLynn Moderator Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Beantown Age: 30 Posts: 4,550 Name: Andrew Lynn	Re: q6600/xp x64/viz 2008? I've never heard of it running on only one core under x64. I have XP32 at work and ran it for a while and it did work with all my cores... and it's supposed to be fine under x64... if I have a demo copy sitting around I'll install it at home and check. But the issue being discussed on that thread was that mental ray under Viz08 is limited to 4 cores (which seems like a horrible idea - they actually reduced it from 8 to 4 right when people were starting to buy 8-core computers - guess it's so they can sell more Max...) and a Q6600 has 4 cores, so you wouldn't have that problem.