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    D901C - Optimize rendering times

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by badboidave, Oct 3, 2008.

  1. badboidave

    badboidave Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi,

    I was wondering are there any settings to maximize rendering speeds?

    Im using programs like Autocad, and Rhino 3D.

    I also, find Photoshop does not perform that fast as well


    Im quite a novice here...but are there ways to measure if I am actually using the notebook to its full potential?

    Also, I am running XP and have 2gig of ram, soon to get another 2gb soon....

    thanks
     
    badboidave, Oct 3, 2008
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  2. Say-Jer

    Say-Jer Newbie

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    I cannot help with your quest for optimizing your render time just yet, but I use Maya, PS and IL as well...read my sig for my machine specs. I'm curious to know what your redner time is per frame with your 3D application? Mind posting what your time is for one frame so that people like us have some sort of baseline to work up from? Thanks and goodluck!
     
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  3. Nintendam

    Nintendam Notebook Consultant

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    just a note, in maya, rendering does use your memory at first - i've gotten plenty OOM errors with 4gb of ram on just starting a render

    upgrading to 4gb will help your photoshop problem, I have illustrator, photoshop rhino and two instances of maya running, plus itunes open and it's awesomely smooth... sure love my computer


    im running xp pro right now but just received vista ultimate 64 in the mail, 64 bit app's will deffinitely be much quicker


    anways to max render speeds, see if there is a way to render outside of the program, in maya you can render without the file open by just right clicking the file and hitting render, uses much less memory and processing power


    i know for a fact rhino is badly programed to use multi-threaded cpu's, to check you can just use ctrl alt delete and monitor the processing power
     
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  4. sfxocean

    sfxocean Notebook Enthusiast

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    If you have 4G of memory on XP, some applications can not see more than 2GB of memory, even though the O/S reports 4GB (minus of course hardware/drivers in the upper memory).

    A quick search of the web turns up this little jewel - by default XP splits the 4GB memory allocating 2GB for the O/S and 2GB for applications. If you want to give your applications 3GB of that memory and leave 1GB for XP, you have to set the /3GB switch in your boot.ini file, and your vendor may not have done this for you.

    Here's an example boot.ini entry, before and after the switch has been added:

    multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

    multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /3GB

    If you are not watching your memory usage closely on a app by app basis, you may not realize you have apps that need the /3G switch set.
     
    sfxocean, Oct 5, 2008
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