566 Beta Multithreading - Quad Core

[JasonJoel]

Just thought I would feed back a little.

I had 3 compilation DVDs I needed to make anyway, so thought I would try out the 566 beta on my Athlon Phenom 9500 quad core machine.

I did one DVD with it off, and the others with it on.

I saw about a 40% reduction in creation time with the multithrteaded option ON. It was DRAMATICALLY different. You can also see the much higher CPU usage across all four cores as it was re-rendering; just another indication it is really doing something.

So THANK YOU. That made the experience MUCH better. And for the DVDs I create with a bunch of kids programs (commercials chopped out) that takes fairly significant re-rendering, it reduced my time required by HOURS per DVD.

Jason Bottjen

[phd]

Glad you like it.

I corrected the title

[BillC]

I looked thru the options and don't see where you can turn multithreading on and off. What tab is this option located?

Thanks,
Bill

[JasonJoel]

Hold shift when you select TOOLS from the menu. That exposes the advanced options.

Jason

[therat]

It seems as if this option is on by default or does VRD auto-detect a multiple core processor and turn it on if it does?

[royhuang]

Is the multithreading option new to beta 566? I'm using beta 565 and I don't see it under the Manual Parameter Settings. (Which # is it?)

Thx. --Roy

[Dan203]

Yes this is new to 566.

Dan