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wh1sp3r
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Posted: 12th Feb 2008 18:02
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Hi please, How much memory is needed for object (FVF 338), which has 1,000,000 Triangles? What about 5,000,000 triengles? Thank you


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5Louiz
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Posted: 13th Feb 2008 12:45
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Well.. I do not understand hardware very well, but I shall try. What do you want to do with the mesh?

Just render? Render in real time with textures and shaders? Edit?

Anyway, I recommend getting at least 2Gb of memory, mainly if you want to get Windows Vista.

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BenDstraw
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Posted: 13th Feb 2008 17:42
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i have 512 megs on my xp and ill start lagging around 2 million polygons so i think a gig should be a good middle ground for 5 to 10 mil.

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Posted: 13th Feb 2008 18:14
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To be on the safe side, I recommend 1GB ram per million polys.

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hessiess
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Posted: 15th Feb 2008 13:53
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the video card has far more affect on real time performance than the amount of ram

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Alucard94
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Posted: 15th Feb 2008 14:17
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Agreed with hessiess


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John H
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Posted: 15th Feb 2008 16:46
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Also when looking at vid cards, a powerhouse like the 8800 isnt going to give you the best performance, real time, when using a program like maya - you'd be better off with an OpenGL card, however that would nerf your performance in far too many other applications to make it really worthwhile, and the performance increase wouldnt be incredible, either

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BenDstraw
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Posted: 15th Feb 2008 18:35
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unless of course you had a machine dedicated to 3D such as a boxx system or something

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Keo C
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Posted: 15th Feb 2008 18:40 Edited at: 15th Feb 2008 18:40
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You could pick up an Nvidia card for 3D modeling, but it costs quite a bit of money. (Not a GeForce one, I can't remember the name for the ones made for modeling.)


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Posted: 15th Feb 2008 23:47
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I have heard that 3ds max(I don't know if its like this with all modeling programs) uses the precessor for rendering, ram for stability, and the grapics card only for the viewports. But that may be wrong.


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hessiess
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Posted: 16th Feb 2008 08:58
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Quote: "ram for stability"
while ram can affect the stability of a system (mainly the quality of it) it is not what its intended to do. System ram simply stores data while the cpu is working on something else.

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Posted: 16th Feb 2008 23:26 Edited at: 16th Feb 2008 23:27
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Quote: "while ram can affect the stability of a system (mainly the quality of it) it is not what its intended to do. System ram simply stores data while the cpu is working on something else."


I know this I am only repeating what I was told on the 3ds max forums. Although, I used to have random crashs ever once in a while and when I upgraded my ram they stop.


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