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Posted by nhlfan44 at Jun 20, 2010, 4:35:20 PM
Re: Hardware Accelerated Video Rendering
Not exactly sure what you mean by "complex resolution independent CPU calculated ray tracing" confused

I hadn't thought of accelerating the 3D preview panel/window although that would be a nice feature as well wink

What I was referring to would be to accelerate the encoding process of creating a video of a design.
Menu: 3D view->Create Video...

I believe the application is already multi-threaded since both my CPU cores jump to around 95% while encoding so why not use the GPU as another "core" to speed up the encoding process. Now I have no clue how the video gets encoded, I assume there's a lot of math going on to calculate the lighting and shadows etc. so why not use the GPU to perform the calculations in tandem with the CPU?

Hope that clears things up (although I could be completely wrong tongue )

I think the extra RAM helped a bit. Estimated time dropped from 46 hours to 40 so instead I decided to just drop the resolution from 1920x1080 to 720x405 and it took half an hour to finish