Hello, i dont seem to have the choice between gpu and cpu in cycles, and cycles takes ages to finish rendering even the simplest of scenes, what can i do to improve it?
p.s i use an inspiron 15r laptop with intel i3 and 6 gigs of ram, my operating system is ubuntu 11.10 and im using blender 2.62.
I am aware that gpu in laptops is rare, but intel is supposed to handle graphics processing i was led to believe
but intel is supposed to handle graphics processing i was led to believe
If you only have an integrated graphics card in your laptop rather than a discreet one, it will fall way short of being suitbale for any gpu rendering.
i see, but even if im just using cpu it should be faster than this, surely? and it even shut my laptop down when i tried to render 500 samples…
thanks people, will follow the advice. At the moment im trying to render the car as is done in that forum, so far its taken 4 and a half minutes to render 46 samples. Damn, i need to get this sorted.