Mark H

Thanks for the suggestion - but I don't think I am ready to expose my poor VW skills yet 😆 - I need a bit more practice!

Thanks Zoomer - I should probably do the same wrt budget. Maybe I should speak to support and see where they position their hardware. I will let you know if I get a response.

Many thanks for your responses. @Michaelk - I had reduced the vertexes on some areas since without doing this VW just crashed out on some curvy lawn areas that I turned into texture beds - there are probably other in the file to be fair but this is what lead me back to thinking I needed to up[grade. @Zoomer - many thanks for your comments as well and glad you agree with the choice of processor. I had also read that AMD cards do not play as nicely as Nvidia because the driver support is better for Nvidia I am told. So I guess the question that still remains is whether the 3080Ti is the right card or whether it would be just as good with something lower spec at this stage. I appreciate that you can never go wrong with more power - but it would be a shame to see it not used. Thoughts?

Hi Everyone, This is my first post so I hope someone can help. I am relatively new to Vectorworks and have been creating 3D landscape models on sloping sites. The vwx file sizes are around 500MB. I am experiencing lots of hanging when rendering or working with site models and so I figured it is time to get a new PC. My existing one is 8 years old - so a little out of date even though it had one of the fastest processors around in its time! I would like some advice on GPU and new graphics cards coming on the market. I have looked through the forum and have found that CPU is the most important factor by far - and to this end I have decided I will go with the new AMD Ryzen 5950 which is 16 core. This seems to be the best on the market for the price point. I will probably start with 32Mb of DDR4 RAM as this seems to be sufficient from what I have read - but can go to 64Mb if that is deemed preferable? My struggle is with the graphics card. My initial thoughts are to go with the new NVidia RTX 3080Ti as this has similar performance to the 3090 but is significantly cheaper - but I can't help wondering if this is still overkill given the comments I have read about VW not using GPU with performance correlated to CPU more than anything else. I do not use any other support applications at this stage - and I am not a gamer. I am using a 32" 4K monitor but that was to see the screen more easily rather than anything else. I keep reading lots of contrasting information on what card will be sufficient. I would like to think that ultimately we will record walk throughs of models and maybe even get into VR - but I have no experience of this to date. The dilemma is made worse because the 3080Ti is hard to source and are mostly on pre -order - so it is tempting to lower the spec to avoid waiting several months as well. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Mark