Faster screen refresh usually means faster redraw time, meaning less wait time meaning less time to produce. But that can also be achieved with XREFs, optimizing in viewports, proper object degredation, and a few other tricks, you can speed up a slow PC's work time quite substantially.
And dont forget that you can always wait with rendering, and work on something else at the same time. Well, if you have access to multiple computers and multiple copies of MAX. Oh, and if the animation isnt due 3 days before rendering
. Hope that helps answer a few questions for you, Jon.
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