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I couldn't find any CA parameter around H264 settings, so below is Media Info and x264vfw settings: ID : 0 Format : AVC Format profile : High@L4 Format settings, CABAC : Yes Format settings, RefFrames : 4 frames Codec ID : H264 Duration : 55 s 100 ms Bit rate : 6 988 kb/s Width : 2 114 pixels Height : 830 pixels Display aspect ratio : 2.547 Frame rate : 30.000 FPS Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : 8 bits Scan type : Progressive Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.133 Stream size : 45.9 MiB (100%)

Just tried with Xvid: same slowness under X9. Thanks, any pointer is appreciated. As for walk-through rendering parameters, I also have no shadows No Bloom. Your (much appreciated) test shows that you are also getting slower performance with walk-through rendering under X9 versus X8, albeit with less impact than my test. I'm generating 1653 frames at 30fps. I don't think the number of frames to produce has any impact; the complexity of the frames may impact rendering times. But, back to my original post, same plan and same everything else, ratio of 8-9 (X9 -vs- X8), this is abnormal. BTW, I'm running 19.2.0.39. Where are you at?

Preferences/render/Video Card Status: shows the Radeon HD 7800 series (HD 7850) being used in both cases. When I'm monitoring the render, TaskMgr shows activity against the PCI Radeon, not the embedded Intel HD 4600. Windows boots with this video card as primary. I do see something suspicious, as per attached. X9 shows a lower level Open GL version: 3.3.13491 vs 4.5.13491. Notice the common trailing '13491',but different prefixes? Even worst, when I query my video card directly, it reports 6.14.10.13491. Can anybody make sense of this? Better yet, has anyone done some benchmarks on walkthroughs between X8 and X9?

First thing I checked. x264vfw in both cases.

Same environment (Radeon HD 7850, i7-4770, 16GB, SSD), same plan. During rendering of a walkthrough: X8: CPU 30% GPU 15-20% X9: CPU 15% GPU 90-95% Rendering a walkthrough for that plan under X9 takes 8-9 times what it took under X8. Granted, overall 3D performance has greatly improved with X9, but this situation forces me to do renderings while I'm busy on something else, then you loose that work flow . I also understand that there are some new parameters (bloom, occlusion...) which make performance comparisons more difficult. Given the augmented usage of the GPU under X9, I know my aging video card is begging for an upgrade. None the less, I'm curious if anybody else has similar or dissimilar experiences to share about walkthrough rendering under X9.

Could you please elaborate on "increase the thickness and the framing covers" ?