Slow performance, pixellated images.

[Tom Wood]

Got the software rendering turned off by turning on hardware acceleration in preferences.

On the ethereal wave emitter, changing the zoom in the preview window seems to slow down at 400%, but it’s hard to tell with it in that close. Other Pro emitters it didn’t have any effect. The ‘keep particles in order’ button had no effect, checked or unchecked.

I’ve had a similar problem with some of the fireworks emitters that have the “super emitters” (?) in them.

When the images are rendered, is the video card involved in any way? Because if you look at that first still I posted, it’s very rough. If the video card is not involved, then it’s the CPU.

TW

[Alan Lorence]

particleIllusion uses the video card to render if hardware acceleration is being used.

Alan.
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[Tom Wood]

The video card has a boatload of settings that can be changed. It also comes preloaded with a set of profiles for a variety of software programs, like Maya, LightWave, Combustion, etcetera, but PI isn’t listed. Changing the profile optimizes all the settings for a particular program. Is there another program out there that acts like PI to a video card that might be on the list?

TW

[Elvis Deane]

The Combustion preset may help, since its particles are based on particleIllusion’s.

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Elvis Deane!

The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion

The particleIllusion FAQ

[Tom Wood]

I tried most of the profiles, no help.

Dunno.

TW

[Alan Lorence]

If there are any profiles for games (like Quake, or similar) then try one of those.

Alan.
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