I'd be picking up the phone to the Boxx reseller this
very second...
Run wglinfo.exe in a command prompt and check the top
of the result. Mine, for example, says:
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string:
Quadro FX 3500/PCI/SSE2
OpenGL version string: 2.0.3
If your "renderer string" says "GDI Generic", then the
nVidia driver isn't working properly and it's falling back on software
render (which would be fairly fast on a 3GHz machine but not the same as
hardware accelerated).
- ½
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
[mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Todd Alan
Peleg
Sent: 30-Apr-2007 15:42
To:
XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: particle simulation and video
cards
wow
umm.. gulp... i just did a test
default
sphere
radius 2
20x20 resolution
my laptop plays it back about 3x
faster than the boxx... in wireframe, and shaded
keep going half... what
are you thinking?
Halfdan Ingvarsson wrote:
Does this happen with other sort of 3d playback? 256 x
256 mesh sphere, for example?
What happens if there are no 3d views open (ie. only the
explorer for example)?
- ½
nope.. wireframe.. OGL
shade.. doesn't matter....
literally.. open XSI ... create particles
from sphere...
play...
thats my test
also...of the 5
machines here.. its the same on ALL of them...
i would say this is an
nvidia question... but.. i think they'll throw it back to
Soft...
Bradley Gabe wrote:
And everything else is the same
too? OS, disk speed, swap space? I'm grasping at straws here, but that seems
really odd.
What about just displaying particles in wireframe? Maybe we
can isolate whether it's number crunching CPU difference or graphics card
acceleration.
actually..
i am talking get a default
particle simulation (yes.. both caching - or not caching -
locally)..
for instance... creat particles from
sphere..
don't touch a thing..
it is faster on my machine
(significantly) than on the boxx machine (all 4 windows AND just one
window
all else is equal
Bradley Gabe wrote:
Strange situations like these merit strange
questions:
What about caching? Are you caching locally on you
notebook and doing network caches on the workstation? Or is the notebook
also on the network?
boxx has 2 procs.. ( Intel Xeon 3ghz)
my laptop is 5 years old.. so i think that answers the dual core
question..(just in case: P4 1.7ghz i gig ram)
Simon Pickard wrote:
> Is the Box(x) dual, or more cpu, and the laptop single core?
> Just wondering if there's some thrashing between cores going on with
> the Box(x).
>
> Regards,
> Simon
>
>
>
>
> On 30/04/07, Todd Alan Peleg <todd(at)theholdingcell.com> wrote:
>
>> Here's a great one..
>>
>> see if anyone can verify this happening for them.. (and that excludes
>> you, Eric)
>>
>> the box(x) i am on at work has an nvidia quadro fx 3000 in it with 256
>> MB of RAM
>>
>> my laptop is 5 years old and has an nvidia geforce4 440 (to go) in it
>> with 32mb of ram.
>>
>> particle simulations (on ANY simulation) are about 3 times faster on my
>> laptop..
>>
>> anyone got an answer for that one????
>>
>> just to preface:
>> my laptop is nowhere near the box(x) i am working on at the office..
>> so.. its not hardware related to anything other than video card.. and
>> YES.. i have tried the most current driver, the oldest driver, AND the
>> softimage recommended driver..
>>
>> which by the way.. none of which are on my laptop.
>>
>> todd
>>
>>
>>
>>
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