JJD Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Has VW12 been written to take advantage of dual core processor technology? Quote Link to comment
CipesDesign Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Only RENDERWORKS takes advantage of dual processing. Quote Link to comment
JJD Posted March 17, 2006 Author Share Posted March 17, 2006 Does anyone know if this is true of the PC version as well? Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 Yes, it's true for both mac and pc. Quote Link to comment
Balus Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 I had read about a month or two ago on the VW news ( can't find it now) that Apple had released the intel about 6 months before they had committed to an as a result a lot of developers, including VW were not quite ready for it. As a result VW was operating on Rosetta which results in no speed increase and in some cases slower when using VW. Has this been resolved? I am looking at upgrading to the intel laptop and VW 12 but will not do so until this is completely resolved. Does anyone have any input? [ 03-18-2006, 10:28 AM: Message edited by: Balus ] Quote Link to comment
jnr Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 So Katie, What improve's 12 speed? Motherload of RAM? Processor speed? I have to order a new machine because 12 is slower than watching paint dry when it comes to processing section viewports or the glacial door and window menus (a full 3 seconds to open). Situation untennable.... Quote Link to comment
jnr Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Back again for more: I was reading on another CAD software site about the use of RAID level 0 to improve CAD performance: "The advantage of using a RAID disk drive with your CAD workstation is the ability to speed access to the disk, application, and OS. A RAID employs multiple drives to break up the tasks across multiple disk drives. The user only sees one drive, but the OS can access multiple disks at the same time." Would Vectorworks take advantage of this type of hardware configuration? Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Anything that reads / writes to the hard drive will improve, including boot time, opening files, saving files etc. So yes. Quote Link to comment
jnr Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Hey Ray: I'm looking at XI computers. AMD dual core chips. Better to have two PCIe video cards for two monitors or try to pile it on to one card? My machine in the office uses one card,two monitors, the one at home, two monitors but uses two cards. I can't tell the difference. Things like the door and window menu in 12 are intollerably slow on both machines, one's w2k the other xp. Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 AMD Dual Core is a great choice. No need for two video cards. It should be quite a difference, your current Win2k is a dinasaur... Quote Link to comment
jnr Posted March 23, 2006 Share Posted March 23, 2006 Thanks Ray, and yes, the dino is on its way to the fossil yard... Quote Link to comment
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