Go map, you have no excuse now since TrenchBroom is so easy to set up and use. SILENCE! DO IT! 

Mike - Are you using a multithreaded VIS? Because, damn, really... 

I am not sure which vis I am using but it is on a Pentium4 (and I can't stop now) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amnWNvOK5IQ 

Pentium4? OK, well it's irrelevant anyway... 

Mike, vis time might be easily cut in 4 or 8 on a modern processor with WVis or tyrann's new release! Add the higher frequency to that and your map should be VISed within a day.

So, who wants to show off his hardware? I only have a i5. 

I find myself agreeing with Spirit here, find someone who has a fast multicore machine and a threaded vis program and ask them! Detail brushes might help :-p 

...I'm gonna wear a smile and walk in the sun.

Strange as it may seem, this time 'thing' is not an issue for me - I actually think it is quite funny. Besides, I have a very nice 17" HP i7 'dogs bollox' laptop that I do all my mapping, photomanip and serious spreadsheet work on. It is fast and no doubt that it could run FullVis in the background using a couple or more cores and be quicker than my old P4.

But then I wouldn't have anything to talk to you guys about... 

I've considered picking up a cheapo laptop and doing all my Quake mapping on there. You can get something halfway decent for, like, $400 ... it's amazing. 

I found mapping on a laptop to suck big time, not my thing... 

You can restrict vis to not use all your cores! Also at least on Linux I noticed no real impact on using the PC for the usual browsing, music, movies while running a full vis with all cores. 

I think think FullVis is after a record: 212 hours gone and 176 to go.

JPL, you had some big ol' maps; what was your record time? 

Noone's tried using one of the high-cpu EC2 instance to compile maps yet? 

Does it count if you VIS on a terrible computer? That's kind of cheating, isn't it? :) 

All of my previously released maps were built and compiled on that computer, so I won't hear anything bad said about it. 

... and still I don't know if I have to be proud of this... though....

It happened with "Castle of the Dark Ages" ( http://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/cda.html ) ... vis runtime was 1218 hours (you read it correctly: one thousand two hundred and eighteen hours... 50 days and 18 hours...).. I at least won the worl record of patience :P
Note it ran on my current crashed computer (i.e with AMD Athlon 2600+), and it was not a multi-thread vis tool.

I guess same map on other computer with better vis tool could result in half the original runtime 

Well, I think you will be keeping the record for some time.

Last night I went into FullVis and read the riot act. It was all obstinance and slouching, but when I went in this morning, all of a sudden 93% complete and only 33 hours to go. So that told him! 

http://imgur.com/XfZCQ9q 

Reason #18460 why I've never played that sodding game. 

 

Reminded me of that stealing in skyrim video though, which made me smile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt5aUdijAN8 

Another Skyrim video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=rQliT71-ooU&NR=1 

So, FullVis finally gave up taunting me and gave birth after 280h 53m. All those threats of 400+ hours were just bluff. Tosser!

And, you know what? It doesn't look or feel any better on the i7 laptop than the QuickVis version.

I'll push it out some time next week (with reservations, provisos, and a general lack of satisfaction (I ain't got no...) 

Hello.

Oh look, it's all the people from the other thread. All these familiar faces--but yet not so familiar quite yet since I've never been here before. 

who are you?