Planning new PC system - requirements?

[Nick M Singer]

I'm going back to the drawing board

[Joe Harkin]

Tried Stage on my old (existing) system-
Dell 4600
P4/2.4MHz
1G DDR 2700/3200 (mixed) RAM
ATI RADEON 9000 All-In-Wonder Vid card 64MB OpenGL supported
Shut down everything else I could think of.

Two cups of coffee to load, cant do ANYTHING with it, 576MB memory used by eCab, 1.6+ MB page file in use.
This IS a real good system test file. I'm surprised I can even SEE the layout on this thing.
BTW based on recent Microsoft announcements I'm waiting for Windows7 - apparently even Steve Balmer recommends it......

[Rick Palechuk]

You mean Crazy Steve?

[Kerry Fullington]

Nick,

The performance isn't too "abysmal". I was able to add all the seating and now I am gong to start on the wood work.

I think one reason this job is such a monster is that there are 24 light sources to calculate.

Kerry

[Nick M Singer]

Sorry Kerry I read a reply by Dan as one of yours, what system are you running, and what are the load time and render times like?

[Dean Fehribach]

I loaded this job. Took one minute to load. Rotating it, I get right at one frame per second (1 fps) without the Quadro tweak (I'm on Vista).

[Nick M Singer]

I have much the same system as yours Dean except I am running XP sp3 and have a 8800GT with 512megs but i can not get the file to load. I think you will agree that has nothing to do with the graphics card. I also got one of my own larger files (12 megs) added 24 lights and it handles just fine and renders within 30 seconds.

[Kerry Fullington]

Nick,

My system is shown at the bottom of this post. It is about two years old and I am curious if the newer stuff isn't working better.

It took 2minutes 22 seconds to load the file and then without moving anything it only took 6 seconds to render the overhead view but then took 22 minutes 24 seconds to render a presentation view. Movement is jerky but not painful.

I think that another thing with this file is all the curved part editor cuts. There are hundreds of them on the curtains.

I would like to know what the Ultimate eCabinets Machine might be. I have never been able to do all the stuff I want to job files because the computer balks.

[Nick M Singer]

Ok Kerry as you can see from my earlier post my Quadro 3500 system is now back in business and I can report that the performance is just as awful. I only get a black screen when I try to do a presentation view and the handling is slow and jerky. It appears to me that the performance on your system is about as bad, I would find it unacceptable and impractical to work on a job that handled that way, 22 minutes to render and image, please spare me! we may as well draw it by hand. I can only conclude that the money spent on a Quadro is simply not worth it and that for the average kitchen design a good gamers card works just as, or about as well