2.42 Optimized for Windows Pack

[mchs3d]

Phew! I just released 6 downloads available at http://www.graphicall.org containing optimized versions of Blender 2.42 for Windows. Three are .zip archives and three are their respective automated installers, like the kind you download off of download.blender.org. The SSE and SSE2 builds require that your CPU support the version of SSE in the build, or the build won't run. These are not meant to be testing builds, but rather to be production-stable yet optimized versions of the 2.42 release.


-- DOWNLOAD SECTION --

-- INSTALLERS --

-- Blender 2.42 Optimized (Installer)
-- Blender 2.42 Optimized with SSE (Installer)
-- Blender 2.42 Optimized with SSE2 (Installer)

-- .ZIP ARCHIVES --

-- Blender 2.42 Optimized (.zip)
-- Blender 2.42 Optimized with SSE (.zip)
-- Blender 2.42 Optimized with SSE2 (.zip)

[Rave_Zero]

Thank you very much!

[Auteuro]

Q: What's better than Blender?

A: Optimized Blender!!!

Thank you mchs3d

[Kai Kostack]

I don't know why, but with your build (SSE), I cannot save OpenEXR files. Instead, I'm getting always tga files.

[mchs3d]

Hmmm... That's odd! Anyone else get that problem?

[enzoblue]

It adds a .tga extension to it yep. Save xxx.exr and it gets saved as xx.exr.tga

[Isocles]

Any chance of making a new set of these for 2.42a on XP/2k?

[djfuego]

I second that request.

[mpan3]

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Not to hijack mchs3d's thread, but i have a few optimized build available on my site.

2.42a for AMD A64: A64 and semprons with SSE3
2.42a for AMD A64: All socket A64's, including A64 3000+ to X2 5600+ AND all semprons
2.42a for AMD Athlon XP: Athlon XP 1800+ to 3200+, Socket A Sempron and mobile Athlon
2.42a for AMD Athlon: Older Athlon "B" and "C"


2.42a for Intel Pentium 4: P4, Xeon, Core Solo/Duo, Pentium 5/6/7/8xx and certain Celerons (SSE1/2/3)
2.42a for Intel Pentium 4 (Northwood): Pentium 4 and certain Celerons (SSE1/2)
2.42a for Intel Pentium III: Pentium 3, older Celerons, Celeron-M, and Cenrino/Pentium-M



2.42a for All x86 Processors: Try this still highly optimized version if all of the above fails

USE these are your own risks! I have been told that the A64 version have some problems with Dual-core (NOT using both cpu). And Intel user will find that mine is not AS fast as mchs3d's, but the AMD build, especially the Athlon XP build, flies.

[Rave_Zero]

Thanks, I'm gonna try the SSE3 build


EDIT:

Grass_Tutorial benchmark results (unchanged settings)

Official Build 2.42a => 3:16.96

AMD64 Build 2.42a => 3:00.02

AMD64 SSE3 Build 2.42a => 2:33.83

[kosstheory]

mpan3,

I tried out the SSE3 version, and found that the 15% speed increase was about the same as the basic optimized A64 version posted by the thread starter.

However, rendering to Yafray using your SSE3 build causes blender to crash everytime.