adrian_dav

the amount of ram does not have any influence on the time needed in this case. it is a small scnene even after viz is done "meshing" it. more ram would be useful for a large scene to avoid swapping data back'n'forth between memory and hard drive.

i just don't have the time to take the ram out of the box each time i render a small scene .

best,

a

matt_vinoir

i'm not rubbing it in adrian! I'm just amazed, as all you here is viz will eat all the ram you can chuck at it in evrey circumstance, i didn't realise it wasn't the case all ther time

adrian_dav

... and i didn't intend to come across as one of these "mine-is-bigger-than-yours RAM-machos" . the RAM requirements of viz4's radiosity process are imense. autodesk should advertize VIZ to consumers by having put RAM-sticks put into cherio boxes .

i always considered 1gig RAM overkill, but a typical rendering size of 4000x3000pixel in conjunction with the RAM-eating radiosity solution made it neccessary to get more.

greg_hess mentioned in another thread on this forum that windows is limited to 2gb RAM per thread anyway. not much room to expand :-(. we better watch the polys and skip the chamfer and fillet tools from time to time .

best,

adrian

Dave Buchhofer

Finally got the new box's in! the word is

9:23 radiosity

Dual athlon 2100's. out of the box

haven't tried to tweak them yet. unfortunately 1 of the 3 has this little thing where if you install VIZ, it wont boot! such an annoying thing.

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coupe333

Win XP pro
Dual AMD 1800mp
MB: asus A7M266-D
Ram: 1G
Vga: GeForce 500 Ti

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Radiosity Time: 0:10:05

Rendering Time: 0:00:13

Eric

Seems that this thread is dead, but here is my info.
Dell Dimension 4100
CPU: 1000MHz PIII
number of CPUs: 1
RAM: 512MB
motherboard: don't know - Dell
Time: 23 minutes, 46 seconds

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