domer1322 Posted September 15, 2008 Share Posted September 15, 2008 I saw the website info .. but it was missing a critical issue ..... is VW 2009 faster or slower than VW2008 ? In particular, there was a lot of information on the new parasolid kernal, but none of it stated if my 3D renderings will appear faster ? After waiting for hours for some renderings, a speed improvement is important. (PS: can anyone at NNA tell me if my full install of VW 2009 will actually run with 2G RAM or do you absolutely have to have 4G as listed in the sys reqmts ?) Quote Link to comment
M5d Posted September 15, 2008 Share Posted September 15, 2008 (edited) There are some benchmarks in here. Parasolid Advantages Edited September 15, 2008 by M5d Quote Link to comment
Guest Frank Brault Posted September 15, 2008 Share Posted September 15, 2008 (PS: can anyone at NNA tell me if my full install of VW 2009 will actually run with 2G RAM or do you absolutely have to have 4G as listed in the sys reqmts ?) As stated on our website, Vectorworks 2009 Designer will run with 2G RAM; Vectorworks 2009 Designer with Renderworks will run with 4G RAM. To help you answer this question for yourself, keep in mind the following facts: Stated system requirements are not necessarily the optimum. Adding more ram than the required amount will improve performance. How much improvement depends on your other hardware. The improvement while measurable, diminishes as you add more amounts of RAM. There is a point where adding more RAM will not improve performance. Whether the improvement justifies the cost depends on you. Quote Link to comment
billtheia Posted September 15, 2008 Share Posted September 15, 2008 Bummer. It looks like the MacBook 1.83 GHz, 2G RAM, that I've been running VW2008 D+RW on isn't going to cut it anymore. THAT's going to delay my upgrade. Quote Link to comment
Administrator Pharr Posted September 16, 2008 Administrator Share Posted September 16, 2008 We have moved from past practice of trying to identify a true minimum configuration to more recently specifying a recommended configuration. (We need to adjust some of our terminology on the web site to reflect this.) 2GB is perfectly fine for most Renderworks users, though for larger models and especially when using HDRI rendering we recommend supplying 4GB as you will see benefits in speed and rendering capability. Paul Pharr CIO NNA Quote Link to comment
brudgers Posted September 16, 2008 Share Posted September 16, 2008 It would be helpful to list video cards in the requirements/reccommendations. It did nothing for my customer experience to find that the video card in my laptop was not sufficient after dropping $2300 on software. Particularly since one of the reasons for switching to Vectorworks rather than upgrading ADT was that my laptop met the listed requirements. Quote Link to comment
Katerina Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 if usability speed counted, using preselection highlighting makes working really really fast. Quote Link to comment
grant_PD Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 And is there any news of VW2009 being 64 bit? Quote Link to comment
Jeffrey W Ouellette Posted September 19, 2008 Share Posted September 19, 2008 Grant, VW2009 has not been explicitly re-engineered as a 64-bit application, but will work in 64-bit OS environments. Quote Link to comment
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