NorCalLights Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Hi everyone, Contemplating an upgrade to 2011 here... in the real-world of 2D light plot drafting, have you seen any speed improvements in 2011? I'm mostly concerned with refreshing instruments, moving instruments, and display refreshes when panning/zooming around a large light plot. My Mac Pro never shows more than 8% total processor usage (across 8 cores) in VW2010, but refreshing instruments on a large light plot can still take as long as 30 seconds. Cheers, ~Paul Quote Link to comment
Mickey Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 Sorry Paul I don't have an answer to that, but I know it's a database issue. All those lights are connected to a database, and when we move them it seems to take forever for it to update. I know that starting in VW2010 alot of what we see on the screen has been moved off the main CPU processor, and onto the video card GPU. I was hoping that would improve how quickly lighting fixtures refreshed. It did not. I'm not in a hurry to update to 2011 until it can be proved it's worth the upgrade (and we have 18 licensees here) Speeding up how fast fixtures refreshed would be a good incentive. Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 I'm finding that 2011 SP2 moves faster with spotlight fixtures. Which makes 2011 much more usable from a speed standpoint. But the accessory bug makes using accessories almost impossible. hth mk Quote Link to comment
NorCalLights Posted March 4, 2011 Author Share Posted March 4, 2011 Thanks, Michael. That's good to hear at least. It's a little silly that my Mac Pro shows no real speed difference in my day-to-day 2D work over my (almost 5-year-old) Macbook Pro. Has anyone tried running VW on a solid state drive? Has that made any difference? ~P Quote Link to comment
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