Then make the GPU do it, will probably speed things up more than 8x. The reason its slow is because Blender uses a different rendering technique to most games. Rather than the traditional methods it calculates the images from bouncing photons around to get super accurate reflections and shading, hence it takes time. The upshot is that it can also get photo realistic results.
Oh yeah, well.... uhmm... so can I !!! I don't think so many towels have ever been needed on standby for a joke on this forum
Well my oscilloscope lasted for a whole two day's now it's dead, think the CRT is dead, it has 3Kv on the high voltage line which is perfect, the 'scope is able to trigger but I can't get a trace on the CRT. Sucks to be me I guess...
That sucks, I can't say I've had a CRT die like that before, usually they go dull, make weird sounds or have problems displaying before hand. Might be worth checking the caps if you haven't already, since its older it could just be a case of one of those finally giving up.
I've checked all the voltages and they're fine, I think it's lost it's vacuum because I can hear glass rattling around inside it.
Ah yeah in that case its most likely the CRT. You might be able to find a new tube for it on ebay but they are usually hard to find or expensive.
Is it possible to hack a CRT TV to do vector stuff if you take the raster electronics out of it? Shove the scope into an old portable TV case and have a TV oscilloscope, would probably need some beefy shielding though EDIT: Apparently not easily...
Yeah, kinda bummed about it but hey, what can ya do. The CRT in question, it's a D14/180GH manufacture date 5th March 1977.
Narwhal mentioned that he did this with an old mac CRT, not sure if its what you are after but its pretty cool none the less.
