greedo Posted July 28, 2009 Share Posted July 28, 2009 Hello, Just upgraded to 09 and I am having major issues with rendering 2D drawings when zooming or panning. It takes minutes to re-render objects, or sometimes re-rendering doesn't happen at all. I have tried using Wireframe, OpenGL, and Fast Rendorworks options for rendering and have had no success. I am running a new macbook, OS X 10.5, Intel core 2 duo 2ghz, 2 gigs ram. It might be that I just don't have enough ram but I've been monitoring my memory activity and at any one time I still have 400mb memory not being used, so I doubt this is the case. Any help with this problem will be greatly appreciated! Quote Link to comment
grant_PD Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Video card issues....or quicktime. You may be running a newer version of quicktime than VW supports. Quote Link to comment
MKingsley Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 How about checking the "Hardware accelerated 2D navigation" in the display preferences. Quote Link to comment
greedo Posted July 29, 2009 Author Share Posted July 29, 2009 I currently have Quicktime 7.6 and the minimum is 7.0 so I doubt that is the case. Is hardware accelerated 2D navigation a feature in SP3? I'm running SP2 and I can't find that option. It may be that my video card isn't powerful enough but 2008 ran flawlessly on the same computer. Is there a huge difference in system requirements between 08 and 09? Thank you for the responses. Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 From the VW 2009 system recommendations page: http://www.nemetschek.net/sysreq/ Video Cards IMPORTANT - Vectorworks 2009 has a completely new document interaction interface which depends on a high bandwidth interface between the CPU and the screen. This has the potential to provide a very fast and fluid screen interface if used on appropriate hardware or a noticeably slower interface if used on the wrong hardware. It is especially important to choose a CPU and video card which are current-generation if you use Vectorworks on a very high resolution 30" monitor. Some users may be dissatisfied with 30" monitors when used with older generation processors or video cards. We strongly recommend that all users check that their video drivers are current. Most functional problems have been traced to older video drivers during our testing. Quote Link to comment
MKingsley Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Is hardware accelerated 2D navigation a feature in SP3? Sorry, I was working in a VW2008 file which has this display preference. Don't know why they took it out in 2009... Quote Link to comment
theob Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 I have noticed the same delay on my computer. I am trying to run 2009 SP4 on a Macbook Pro 2.33 c2d, 3 gig ram, ATY,RadeonX1600 video card with 256 in vram. it's not as bad with smaller drawing files, but i have a larger file that i am working on (~120 mb) and it's painfully, un-workably slow. Quote Link to comment
Oyvind Posted July 31, 2009 Share Posted July 31, 2009 After installing SP1 - SP4 I'm having long delays when rendering viewports. But i've found that changing to a non-modified workspace improves the rendering speed dramatically. Quote Link to comment
brudgers Posted August 1, 2009 Share Posted August 1, 2009 The way in which some applications use video memory under OSX can quickly use up video memory. See: http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=3602 Note the discussion of photoshop not releasing memory until the application is closed (closing windows is not enough). There may (or may not) be similar issues with some of the applications you are running, including (or not including) vectorworks. Quote Link to comment
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