From: Bell, Ross To: 3DSMAX (E-mail) <3DSMAX@ENGRAMDIGITAL.COM> Subject: RE: What speeds up Max more...? Date: Monday, April 10, 2000 8:56 AM Working from 3 different MP systems ppro, pII, pII xeon I would have to say the most critical piece of hardware while working with scenes is memory. I have worked on scenes just loading it take over 200 megs. If you have less then that then every change you make will be done with virtual memory which as you know is slow as dirt. Before I got a memory upgrade for the xeon system my regular pII system was much faster. Do not think it is ridiculous to get over 512 megs. If you can do it. Ross -----Original Message----- From: Greg Dunn [mailto:gdunn@nsausa.com] Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 7:56 AM To: 'Antony Ward'; 3D Studio Max Mailing List Subject: RE: What speeds up Max more...? A good graphics card will speed up your realtime stuff, as in shaded viewports, and I've been hearing a lot of really good things about the GeForce cards on the newsgroups... it works out of the box, but not as well as it can, you have to get the registry tweaks... A new processor will just about double your rendering times, but it doesn't really affect anything else (as far as Max goes) except perhaps the redraw.... More memory will help your rendering times --IF-- you're out of memory now (which you can tell by when you render, your hard drives sounds like it's screaming or grinding in pain) otherwise, as long as you have at least 128mb, you should be okay. If you're dealing with hipoly scenes or lots and lots of textures or raytracing or lots of lights, you'll want to double that, probably. -Greg -----Original Message----- From: Antony Ward [mailto:award@uk.infogrames.com] Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 8:05 AM To: 3D Studio Max Mailing List Subject: What speeds up Max more...? A new processor or a decent gfx card ? If so what do you recommend ? Antony Ward - Graphic Artist >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Infogrames Sheffield House AWard@UK.Infogrames.com (0114) 2639900 Ext. 2720 ICQ - 31018562 (-- }-{ -- Subscribe/Unsubscribe at: http://mail.engram.net/guest/RemoteListSummary/3DSTUDIOMAX List courtesy of http://www.Engram.net -- Subscribe/Unsubscribe at: http://mail.engram.net/guest/RemoteListSummary/3DSTUDIOMAX List courtesy of http://www.Engram.net -- Subscribe/Unsubscribe at: http://mail.engram.net/guest/RemoteListSummary/3DSTUDIOMAX List courtesy of http://www.Engram.net