Best Method to Optimize PC, for lightwave..

[JAW]

Ok, what is the best way to Optimize your PC to get the best performance from Lightwave, cause im running windows XP, 3.06 P4 with HT, with 4 gig mem, and 750GB HD, and a ATI 128mb card, and it seems like when i work on a model in modeler thats more then 50k polys it runs so slow that i can hardly move my model in any view. What r some things I can do to really speed up my comp?

:help:

[Silkrooster]

Your system is much sweeter than mine. I wish I could model 50k polys.
Make sure you don't have hardly any programs running in the background, they all use cpu processes and memory. Defrag your hard drive, and think about getting a faster cpu and whether you want dual core, dual cpu's, or go to 64 bit.
Silk

[WCameron]

well black vipers original site seemes to have been bought by Network Solutions - looks like possibly he let the domain slip and somebody snaped it up....

but his really nice guide to windows services and what you can turn off, etc, is archived in afew places. heres one:

http://www.theeldergeek.com/services_guide.htm

I'd suggest to start you set up a seperate login to test this out on before hand - or take notes about what you turn on and off etc. just in case.

i honestly dont know if it makes much of a differance where light wave
is concerned. the Modeler Opengl stuff has a few issues - some of which may not be entierly NEWTEKS fault, as there can be issues with drivers,
vieo cards etc. it should be all nice and smooth when the Layout OGL2.0
stuff is formally ported over to Modeler in the 9 release (or in the 9 update cycle or whatever).

among other things too like defraging your drives, have a swap file with
a set amount - none of that 'virtual' crap - and on a different drive from the
OS (preferably a fast one :-)

anywho that service listing should speed things up a bit.


- Will.

[JAW]

tnx, great info, :thumbsup:

[mattclary]

what is the best way to Optimize your PC to get the best performance from Lightwave

Upgrade to an nVidia card.


;)

Seriously though, LW depends on the CPU for geometry manipulation, so no video card is going to help much. nVidia usually gives less headaches, but they aren't any faster.

Supposedly 9 is going to have better OpenGL support.

[IMPERIAL]

just wondering.. if you are on win xp 32bit.. how do you make use of 4GB RAM? does it work?

[Lottmedia]

system properties- advanced- startup and recovery- settings- Edit system startup: Add 3G (or was it GIG?) to the end of the line
"multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional"
and that should do it

Casey :cat:

[lots]

You wont get full access to all 4GB of RAM in Windows 32bit.

[Defiance]

For some extra rendering speed, disable any sort of power management features like Speedstep, PowerNow or Cool'NQuiet when you render. These poll the CPU for activity periodically and can cause slow downs (it can poll it every second or something and that wastes cycles). I've measured a 8% difference on my AMD X2 4200+. I'd leave it on when not rendering - saves electricity (= better for environment), and keeps your CPU cool (= saves fan life, less noise).

Other methods to make your system go fast:

1) I hear Asus has a technology called NOS for overclocking your CPU. Just like the stuff for cars, it'll make you go fast. But it doesn't have a big red switch for you to press. It does it automatically.
2) Install Gentoo Linux. Compile everything from source, make your system "go so fastest as possible" - according to some guy on the Gentoo forum. Although others contend that Gentoo is just rice: it makes you think you go fast but it really doesn't. Just like cars. But who can honestly say you don't feel like you're going faster than 5 mph when speedbumps rip off your spoilers as you go past them? Same thing with Gentoo.
3) Get a 1000W power supply, even if your system uses only 200W at full load. Your processor needs juice and if it doesn't have enough power, you need to give it more. "Vroom, vroom - zoom, zoom." Plus, it cuts down on heating bills; the inefficiency of running a 1000W PSU so much below peak is enough to space heat your basement.
4) Get CAS-1 latency RAM. It'll push data to your processor faster. As we all know, there's the law of continuity of data and if you can push data fast into the processor, it must come out at the same speed. So the faster you push, the faster you render. Don't worry about the CPU not being fast enough to handle all the data. You'll just burst the pipeline and your data'll really fly out (ever see a water main burst?). That's why Intel named the P4 architecture Netburst.
5) Press the Turbo button on your computer. Don't have one? Get a new case! It'll really make it go way faster.