jwouie Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 I've been adding image props to show photographs on my walls for an exhibit. As I was adding them, I would go to a camera view in Open GL to see the image props. After adding about 20 or so, going into Open GL mode would cause Vectorworks to freeze up. I've played around, re-done all the image props with lower res images (and deleting the original image textures) so that the file size was reduced greatly down from 45MB to 13.5MB. However, it still happens. If I turn the image prop class to be invisible, the rendering is fine and I am able to use the Walkthrough tool in the empty gallery. I made a second class for the image props and played around with having fewer image props and everything works fine when there are fewer (15 or so image props). I haven't used image props much since I started using this computer, but when I check the Task Manager, it looks like I am using 73% of the computer's memory when I try to open GL render a view with all the image props? Is it a graphics card issue? Memory issue? File issue? (Other files seem to work okay, but I don't typically use many image props). File is too big to upload here, but I've uploaded it here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/agpybvjft6ve073/BTS3.vwx (I actually can't even open this file anymore because the last time it saved, it was in Open GL mode, so if it opens for someone else, that would be helpful to know) Vectorworks 2013 SP2 Dell Latitude E6430 Intel HD Graphics 4000 Intel Core i7-3720 QM 2.60 GHz Quote Link to comment
Bryan G. Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 Opens slow but opens. I hope someone with a PC can pipe in here. Quote Link to comment
IanH Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 How much memory does your PC have and what version or windows incl. 32/64 bit? That might give us a clue whether you have memory issues? Quote Link to comment
Jonathan Pickup Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 you might find that it is memory issues on the Intel HD Graphics 4000 graphics card. the recommendations for graphics cards are here: http://kbase.vectorworks.net/questions/714/Video+Card+%7B47%7D+Graphics+Card+Guidelines+for+Vectorworks+-+9-17-2012 but it is really hard to figure out the RAM on your particular graphics card. do the image props render in custom Renderworks? Quote Link to comment
Bryan G. Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 I have a good Graphics card and have no issues renders just fine. I would have to say it most likely is the card. But more RAM is always a good thing. Quote Link to comment
jwouie Posted January 6, 2013 Author Share Posted January 6, 2013 (edited) Turns out my computer has an integrated graphics accelerator as well as a higher end graphics card and it was defaulting to use the integrated one. Works fine now. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! Edited January 6, 2013 by jlouie Quote Link to comment
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