# XSI Experience version 3?
**URL:** https://forum.highend3d.com/t/xsi-experience-version-3/62012
**Category:** Xsi
**Tags:** general
**Created:** [February 7, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/xsi-experience-version-3/62012 "2003-02-07T02:54:01Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@\-undertow-](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/-undertow-)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/xsi-experience-version-3/62012/1 "2003-02-07T02:54:01Z")
I'm a Maya user, but i've wanted to try out XSI for a while now so i thought i should get XSI Experience, but it's only version 2. Does anyone know if they plan to release an Experience veroin of XSI 3? Also how different is 2 to 3?
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### Author:  [@atyss](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/atyss)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2003, 12:59pm UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/xsi-experience-version-3/62012/2 "2003-02-07T12:59:44Z")
Experience for v3 is currently at beta stage, afaik. Don't know when it will be released.
Salutations - Cheers
Bernard Lebel
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### Author:  [@\-undertow-](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/-undertow-)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2003, 12:02am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/xsi-experience-version-3/62012/3 "2003-02-08T00:02:55Z")
Oh good, they are doing it. But what are the biggest additions or improvements 3 has over 2?
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### Author:  [@atyss](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/atyss)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/xsi-experience-version-3/62012/4 "2003-02-08T03:24:11Z")
The BIGGEST additions are not exactly additions, but improvements. Performance in v3 is quite impressive. The software is more stable, it handles more easily large scenes, subdivision surfaces is faster, I can now keep long history stacks, mental ray is somewhat faster and less likely to crash on heavy scenes.
I suggest you read the feature list on Softimage website.
Hope this helps
Salutations - Cheers
Bernard Lebel
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### Author:  [@\-undertow-](https://forum.highend3d.com/u/-undertow-)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://forum.highend3d.com/t/xsi-experience-version-3/62012/5 "2003-02-09T00:55:35Z")
ok, thanks.