Returning to the actual problem... I just did a clean install of Win XP, and ran into the same problem. The exe-installer of Blender actually does install the said files, it just installs them in a different place, and then Blender itself doesn't find them! When installing Blender, it asks at one po...

If you are going to buy a new rig, and 3D rendering stuff is what you are interested in, the is NO WAY around a 4core system, even a intel skulltrail 2xquadcore system could be interesting, or building a cheap, but powerfull cluster of renderslaves, combined to a powerfull über-computer using linux...

Hi all! My first post.... I was in the middle of a modelling project, and I thought to test the rendering speed with my own machine and my father's new (and cheap) laptop. After that, I asked my friend to render the same scene with his machine. Some settings (same for all machines): bidirectional: 1...