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The computer that I use for fractal rendering is not in great condition right now, I'm waiting for some stuff to arrive in the mail to supe it up (a few cables, a new hard drive, a new processor, a copy of Windows 7, etc.) and was just wondering in the mean time, is rendering fractals in Windows Vista's safe mode affecting the quality of the final rendering of the images? I know that safe mode only loads essential drivers, so I'm just wondering if some of the drivers that are not loaded play a role in increasing the quality of the final image; I'm asking in relation to final renders from the Mandelbulb 3D software.

Any insight into this would be very much appreciated.

Yeah thats definitely a possibility I hadn't considered. It looks as though the sharpness is what's affected most. I think when I get home I'm just going to render some params with all the same settings in normal and safe mode and then compare the images. Probably the only way I'm going to get to the root of the answer.

Thanks for the input, definitely not something I had considered.

Oh yeah, duh - that's probably it.  The image may have rendered fine - and you just can't see it!