willofmaine Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 I sometimes have lots of trouble cutting viewport sections. (Failures and/or excessive time (compared to what I know it can do time-wise)). Also, When working in elevation viewports of a somewhat sizable and complex building, there tends to be a hesitation that is most noticeable with moving about, zooming in and out, and so on. Are either or both of these thing likely to be helped by increasing my RAM? Thought I'd ask before spending the money... I'm assuming (please correct me if I'm wrong) that because I have the original video card that came with my Mac that its drivers are kept up to date as long as I download and install the updates that my Mac periodically finds for itself... Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Will Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 Willofmaine, I noticed there are duplicate postings here and the General Discussion forum. I recommend not posting duplicate posts because generally the major forums are read by the bulk of the users, and it's hard to manage identical posts. Would you prefer this post or the one to the General Discussion removed? Quote Link to comment
willofmaine Posted October 5, 2007 Author Share Posted October 5, 2007 Hi Katie, I did not realize that would be a problem; my apologies. Did you alread remove one? I was wondering what happened to it. You can remove the other one. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
bclydeb Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 willofmaine, More ram certainly helps lots of 3D RenderWorks refreshes in VW. My Macs (Dual G5, 8GB and intel PB-Pro, 4GB) are loaded to the hilt and do renderings of complex buildings fast enough I can do Final (customized) Renderworks in meetings, keep the client's/ planning commission's attention, and twirl the ideas around for discussion. I don't know if the Apple downloads update firmware on the Apple supplied video card(s). Maybe we'd both better check oout the Apple knowledge base. I hope this helps you. Quote Link to comment
G_Hannigan Posted October 5, 2007 Share Posted October 5, 2007 The video cards are probably from PNY(NVIDIA) or AMD (ATI) and driver updates would come from their websites. Dell has driver downloads for the cards they put in their machines, but usually are not the most recent versions. Quote Link to comment
willofmaine Posted October 6, 2007 Author Share Posted October 6, 2007 Thanks for the responses. I'll probably go ahead and get more RAM; certainly won't be bad for the computer! And if it makes a noticeable difference then, of course, it wouldn't be bad for the wallet either... I'll go to the NVIDIA website and see what I can find regarding updating my video driver. Thanks! -Will Quote Link to comment
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