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===Speed Considerations===

<p>
The following tips can help you increase the speed at which your images render. Most of the
time, the increase will be marginal, but in a very long render (some users have renders that
take several days) even a small increase can save a noticable amount of time.
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===Render Priority===
<p>
Raising the render priority will speed up your render, at the cost of reducing system response
times and slower execution of other programs. Note that by default POV-Ray for Windows is
slower than POV-Ray for Dos would be on the same machine. This is simply because the default
setting for render priority force POV-Ray for Windows to give up some CPU
time (even if no other tasks are running), while POV-Ray for DOS has the machine more or less
to itself. If you want faster renders, bump up the render priority
(but be prepared for sluggish response.)
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See [[Documentation:Windows Section 5.2#Render Priority|Render Priority]] in
the [[Documentation:Windows Section 5.2#Render Menu|Render Menu]] for information on how to do this.
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<p>
Some users have expressed surprise that changing the render priority does not seem to have a
major effect on rendering times. This will of course be the case if the computer in question
is not doing anything else at the time. The time when render priority starts to matter is when
you are running another CPU-intensive process on the computer, one that would compete with
POV-Ray for the CPU. It is then that changing this setting will make a noticable difference.
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===Render Window===
<p>
Closing the render window will also speed up things. If your render is writing a lot of text
to the message window, either hiding it (select an editor window for example), or better
still, minimizing POV-Ray for Windows, will help somewhat. Note that the effect that these
actions have is generally directly related to the time it takes to render the file, and the
resolution of the render. They have less effect on long renders, and more effect on very fast
renders.
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===Memory===
<p>
In general, the more memory you have (up to a point) the faster things will run, although this
is not a direct effect. (The less time Windows spends swapping things out to disk, the more
time is available for your render)
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===Scene Features===
<p>
Anti-aliasing, fog, media, area lights, photons, isosurface--all of these will cause your scene to require more time for completion. See the POV-Ray documentation for more details.
</p>

===Render Quality===
<p>
Consider using a lower [[Documentation:Reference Section 1.3#Quality Settings|quality]] setting if you're just
testing your scene, and do not care about the quality of the output.
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