Silverfast Automatic Descreening Performance Scaling

[Shekwork]

Hi, I would like to know how I can decrease the time it takes to use automatic descreening in Silverfast. I am confused why my descreening times are not scaling according to my system hardware. I thought that descreening heavily relies upon cpu speed & ram. So I ran a test with the latest version of Silverfast on 2 different systems. 1 system is a dual Xeon quad core system running at 3 ghz 12 gb ram. The other system was a Intel I7 quad core system running at 2.6 ghz with 3 gb ram. The dual xeon system is running Vista 64 and the other system Vista 32. On the dual xeon system it took approximately 6 minutes to run a scan with automatic descreening enabled at 300 dpi. On the other system it took approximately 7 minutes. I know that there are multiple factors that can affect performance such as image size and other Silverfast settings but this was a raw art scan no bigger than 5x7. Another baffling issue is I watched the cpu & ram resources via taskmanager and the cpu usage on both systems did not exceed 20% while ram usage also did not exceed 2 gb. Various other video rendering programs, games, & Adobe editing programs seem to scale according to hardware capabilities but Silverfast performance remains stagnant offering a 15% speed increase for roughly double the processing power.

Anyways it's still the best program out there & I look forward to the coming improvements.

Thanks

[LSI_Luebker]

Dear Customer,
with the next major release we will also optimise SilverFast to use all available CPUs much better than it does now.

[Shekwork]

Not to be impatient but does that mean Silverfast 6.7 will have a new rendering engine that utilitizes all cpu cores? Is it safe to assume based on version 6.6 release time frame that this is due in November to coincide with Windows 7 support? The reason why I'm overly anxious is that I have a pile of art that needs to be desscreened and have been postponing till automatic descreening becomes faster because I can't afford to have someone get one done at every 10 minutes.

Thanks & keep up the good work

[LSI_Luebker]

Dear Shekwork ,

Windows 7 support will be implemented in the current verison of SilverFast. The new major release I am talking about will still take some time.