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Speeding up TS 7.5
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Speeding up TS 7.5 // Roundtable
Post by Tiles // May 16, 2007, 8:58pm
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I am a bit in trouble with my ancient machine, performancewise. AMD 64 3200+, 1 Gig Ram, Ati Radeon X1600 with 256 MB ram. A 20 K mesh with just a 1024 pixel texture is nearly unrigable because it starts to bucking. A bad combination with having the navigation react this strong as it is now. Just touching the mouse a bit, and whoosh, my mesh is out of sight when TS responds after a short moment.
So where can i speed up things a bit? I guess the first one is the bridge turning off while rigging. What else can i do? I am especially looking for all the fancy stuff that isn't really necessary to have it turned on. With other words, i am searching for a spartanic speed setting :) |
Post by splinters // May 16, 2007, 9:15pm
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Bridge will help and you could reduce some graphical settings as your card is being detected as being capable but your processor is a little slow but not that bad. My main concern would be the 256mb of Ram, if that is on your card then great but if that is system RAM then I would expect to have 512mb at least with 1Gb being a decent starting point...:o |
Post by Tiles // May 16, 2007, 9:37pm
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I have 1Gig ram installed. Is not shared memory. The 256 mb ram is the ram from the video card ;)
I know i have an ancient PC nowadays. But that's the way it is at the moment. No money left for new hardware. Not this year. I have to live with that for now. That's why i asked for some settings to turn off so that things speeds up a bit :)
Bridge is noted. What special graphical settings do you mean? Where to find? |
Post by splinters // May 16, 2007, 10:44pm
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No offence Tiles, it read like your system Ram. Anyway, go to hardware settings in workspace (bottom right, flyout from manual icon). You can mess with settings there...you will lose the fancy stuff but it might help with speed. Looking at your system it should not be a real problem, do you have much else running at the same time? |
Post by Tiles // May 16, 2007, 10:55pm
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... 1 Gig Ram , Ati Radeon X1600 with 256 MB ram. ...
My fault. I thougth it was clear that the 256 MB is dedicated to the Ati card :)
Ah, the hardware settings. That's what i was looking for :)
Hum, not this much stuff there. Where are the things like bilinear filtering ? |
Post by TheWickedWitchOfTheWeb // May 17, 2007, 1:44am
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If you're doing any sort of animation or rigging change the bones view to wire diamond - that speeds things up dramatically |
Post by TomG // May 17, 2007, 5:18am
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Anti Aliasing and Supersampling are in the Settings for the main 3D view - ensure Supersampling is off, that used to really kill my system on a 6600 card, was probably the biggest slowdown.
Ensure bloom and anti-aliasing are off too for max speed. Under the settings you have opened that Paul pointed out, you can turn everything way down - eg no shadows, low shadow sample size, low texture display sizes, etc. I guess I would turn everything off and work up one by one to see which settings have the most impact.
Might be worth checking the drivers too and ensuring they are not overriding program settings and forcing anti-aliasing or other settings.
Hopefully something here will help, do let us know what makes the most difference! I don't know much about ATI cards so can't comment on the speed of this one, but a graphics card update can be quite cheap ($70 even) and can make all the difference. Over the last 18 months I have gone from FX5 series to 6600 to 7600 to 8800. The 6600 was real good, the 7600 very very good, and the 8800 of course is not a cheap upgrade, but is amazingly fast. But even the 6600 was giving me great performance (and I know those are cheap now).
It will take someone with more knowledge of ATI cards to comment though. The rest of the system doesnt sound like it would hold your performance back, so as well as adjusting settings in tS for now, it might not take as much money to dramatically improve the system as you might think :)
HTH!
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Post by Tiles // May 17, 2007, 6:49am
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The X1600 card isn't this old. I bought it last summer. And so it is somehow not too outdated. Was even when i bought it a bit weak though. But works fine :)
Alright, let's sort it. Turning Bridge off was so far the biggest boost :)
Also setting shading quality in Workspace HW settings to DX7 basic seems to help a bit. Setting the skeleton to diamond shape too. Antialias is off now. Which makes also a difference , yay :)
I think that will do the trick now to work with more complex stuff even with my weak PC. Many thanks so far for the replies and the help :) |
Post by Tiles // May 17, 2007, 7:44am
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Houston we have a problem. Now i have a darkroom when working in solid view :D
http://reinerstileset.4players.de/ext/darkroom.jpg
When i just would know which setting this did ... |
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