AMD64 slower than Windows ?

Starbucks · 03-26-2006, 01:27 PM

Hi there,

I just installed Suse 10 64bit version on a AMD DualCore 3800+. And i am using Alias Maya 7(3d Software) on my system. I have the same scenes created with Maya, when i render on Windows, it renders in 1:05. With Linux, it renders in 1:15.
This can't be correct. Linux definetely need to render faster than windows...Any comments ? anyone had the same problem ? Should i install 32bit version of Suse or some other distro. ? or just use Windows ?

Keruskerfuerst · 03-26-2006, 01:36 PM

What kernel are you using? uname -a on console?

Starbucks · 03-26-2006, 01:41 PM

Linux 2.6.13-15-smp

and when i check in the gnome system monitor, it uses both of the 2cpus..

Keruskerfuerst · 03-26-2006, 01:44 PM

What version of Windows have you used?
And the actual kernel version is 2.6.13-15.8.

Starbucks · 03-26-2006, 01:50 PM

its just regular windows xp professional sp2...i used to run Maya with Linux 2 years ago, and it was faster then windows...But now, with my brand new machine and Suse64...Windows is faster by 10 secons..and 10 seconds is very big deal..

Keruskerfuerst · 03-26-2006, 01:59 PM

I you want a very fast Linux distribtion, you should use Gentoo 2006.0.

Starbucks · 03-26-2006, 02:37 PM

i dont' have a problem with speed of Suse. I've a problem with Suse can't use my cpu`s like windows do.
I wonder if the problem is because of Suse being 64 or doesnt have a good support for Dualcores...

Keruskerfuerst · 03-26-2006, 08:34 PM

Another point is: Maya is not a 64 bit program.
And a dual core CPU is supported by the SMP-kernel.