Todd wrote it being quadro fx3000 and that is agp.
On Tue, 01 May 2007 00:08:09 +0300, Halfdan Ingvarsson
<hingvars(at)Softimage.COM> wrote:
the FX3500 is a PCI Express card, so make sure you check those settings
(most likely somewhere in the BIOS settings).
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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
<http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/%7Ewimmer/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).
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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)?
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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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