How do I speed up renders !!!!!

[whipster]

I have done a major upgrade on my system

Spec:

Nvidia 6800 GT 256 Video Ram
AMD Athlon 64 Bit Processor 3200+
1.5 gig of Ram 400 hrz
120 Seagate Serial ATA Drive
Paging file set to 2046 - 4092

Max Scene:

Objects: 1078
Shapes: 502
Lights: 42

Vertices: 56500
Faces: 85396

There is no advanced lighting within the scene, also i'm using the default scanline render. It still is quite slow even with the system upgrade has not had a great effect on rendering time...

Is there any tweaks in windows of max that can help.. me.

What is best to work in OpenGL or direct X9..... Please help i need to see the end to this project... cheers

[USED]

all that you can do is:
1:make sure you have all your drivers updated to the latest and greatest.
2:windows updates
3:MAx updates
4:disable all of your startup items for a render, if you dont want to do that at least turn off your AV active scan during renders (will improve the speed a bit)

With Max 5,6,7 I find that DX9 is the best drivers to work with, they will give you the most features, and you have a card that is great for it.

what is making it slow is your 42 lights :) try disabling half of them and watch the speed increase (I know that you want them all, this would just be a test to show how lights effect render times)

[whipster]

Thanks what do you recommend for lighting advanced...??? for speed this needs to be good for outdoor scenes and indoor.

How do i disable. AV active scan???