jackoftradez@comcast.net wrote:

I recently purchased the current "animation" version with the hopes I could re-do some of my animations in 32 bit color, perhaps even faster since it would run in 32 bit windows and take full advantage of current hardware and software.

I thought that it was Trial-ware, so that one could download and give it a trial run before wasting money on something that might not be what they were looking for??

With some tweaking, I can get it to read basic mandelbrot and julia Fractint par files. However, rendering time is much SLOWER for a given image (especially deep ones) using UF on a P4-3GHz system, than it is for fractint on a P3-733 !

I am sure they would love to hear this on the UF Discussion List. ;-} Guess all the hype that they blow around about the program is not altogether true. But then again, there are a lot of fanatics on that List.

Anyone have a clue as to why this is and I just wasted $129 ?!

Is your system a dual-core/processor?? Sincerely, P.N.L. ------------------------------------------------- http://home.att.net/~Paul.N.Lee/PNL_Fractals.html http://www.Nahee.com/Fractals/

On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 16:33 +0000, jackoftradez@comcast.net wrote:

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I know this is a fractint forum but also some people use ultrafractal.

I don't think anyone minds, but you'd be more likely to get some better suggestions on the UF mailing list.

With some tweaking, I can get it to read basic mandelbrot and julia fractint par files. However, rendering time is much SLOWER for a given image (especially deep ones) using UF on a P4-3GHz system, than it is for fractint on a P3-733 !

Anyone have a clue as to why this is and I just wasted $129 ?!

Maybe UF is doing antialiasing by default; or solid guessing is disabled; or any one of many possible options.