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the FX3500 is a PCI Express card, so make sure you check
those settings (most likely somewhere in the BIOS
settings).
- ½
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
[mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Todd Alan
Peleg
Sent: 30-Apr-2007 17:04
To:
XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: particle simulation and video
cards
this one was checked and didn't help.. except making my laptop
slower.. made no change on the BOXX
i was gonna ask the systems guy about
Kris' option.. that sounds interesting.. any other ideas .. please.. keep
sending them
Bradley Gabe wrote:
Here's another one to
try:
-Open File>Preferences>Interaction:
-Is the first option,
"Limit Max Playback Rate to Scene Frame Rate" toggled on or off?
-compare
the setting on your notebook versus the Boxx XSI installs
HMMM
my open GL version is 1.2 on the
boxx
and on my laptop its 1.3.1
that says
something...
i suppose...
but other than that.. the renderer
string the name of the card... not generic.. so that seems ok
Halfdan
Ingvarsson wrote:
I'd be picking up
the phone to the Boxx reseller this very
second...
While you're listening to the hold music, download this: http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~wimmer/wglinfo/wglinfo.zip
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
From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM]
On Behalf Of Todd Alan
Peleg
Sent:
30-Apr-2007 14:29
To:
XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: particle simulation and
video cards
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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