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Ah, I see what the confusion is about... it is not about playback speed, but the rendering speed (opengl/dx render to preview). I remember some heavy scenes used to render 3-4fps and this light scene 0.5-1fps.

I tried it but it is still too slow Also, whatever I do my preview is almost always overexposed. I set it up to the default lighting with ctrl+L but when I start preview it is almost white. How to force it to compute preview with default lighting?

How can I speed up computing preview animation? What is causing this problem? It must be some sort of bug since GPU does redraw viewport rather fast.

I have an apartment fly through animations I am trying to make but when I click "make preview" it has less than 1fps on 320x240. If I click play on timeline I get about 10fps on fullscreen so GPU can handle the geometry. I tried all preview codecs and also without compression but it is the same. I disabled textures, default preview with one light, both Directx and OpenGL... What could be the problem. I use max 2009 + vray, but I tried it in 2011 with the same preview performance. Any ideas you could help me with?

Thank you both for the feedback! It was 5 day deadline so the texture work had to suffer a bit. I notice now a bit oversaturation of the 3D building in compare to the photo, but I am not sure I understand the "photomontage shadows are too dark when comparing to the photo". Did you mean the other way around? The buildings down-right have almost black shadows, but we did not want to loose all details in the shadows matching the photo, since whole view is shadow size. Cheers

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Several renderings from the recently finished job. I'd appreciate your comments... Cheers!