Zdravko Barisic Posted December 26, 2005 Share Posted December 26, 2005 OK, I've driving Quadro4 980XGL for a long time (CAD/DCC) and I've never been disappointed like last night! I run SketchUp and make some comlepx scene ~100 000 polys-3.9MB if it means to some...and....viewports freezing like I have TNT riva instead of Quadro4 ???? in mostly ALL CAD/DCC apps this graphic card drives smoothly very well, perfectly I should say (if we count that it is 3 years old card) driver is 53.03/winXP p4 2.8/2GB ddr/865.... what's your expirience? please some comments? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radarblip Posted December 26, 2005 Share Posted December 26, 2005 Sketchup can be very slow sometimes. First make sure you have checked use hardware acceleration in the opengl settings. Also when ever possible turn shadows off and textures to increase workflow speed. also use layers or components and turn off layers or hide components that are not needed for the particular editing session. Go to model info dialog and purge unused and do a validity check on the model sometimes that helps. Also be sure you are using the most current version of sketchup. You can also post a message in the sketchup forums as well as the folks at sketchup sometimes answer them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted December 26, 2005 Share Posted December 26, 2005 OK, I've driving Quadro4 980XGL for a long time (CAD/DCC) and I've never been disappointed like last night! I run SketchUp and make some comlepx scene ~100 000 polys-3.9MB if it means to some...and....viewports freezing like I have TNT riva instead of Quadro4 ???? in mostly ALL CAD/DCC apps this graphic card drives smoothly very well, perfectly I should say (if we count that it is 3 years old card) driver is 53.03/winXP p4 2.8/2GB ddr/865.... what's your expirience? please some comments? That's strange, I've been using Sketchup on a 900XGL and a 500GoGL and it runs very smoothly - much better than on my previous hardware, which included a Radeon 7500 and a GeForce 440Go. The 980 should give you no problems - my 500 handles files of similar size smoothly. Some tips on making Sketchup fast: -Make sure hardware acceleration is turned on. -Make sure you have recent Quadro drivers - 5303 is old. I'm not sure what I've got for the 900, I'm on the laptop now and it's running 7203 (took a bit of hacking to make that install - it's a Dell - but it improved the performance) -Turn off the display features you don't need to have on while editing. Shadows makes it run much slower, same with XRay - turn that on only when you need it. Profiles, depth cued, jitter, extended, etc aren't as bad but still will reduce the performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zdravko Barisic Posted December 27, 2005 Author Share Posted December 27, 2005 I'll trying with playing w/ shadows and turning on/off layers that should solve the problem, but still I was terribly suprised with so low viewport rendering capabilites I think that they should work on that and take some adventages of nVidia&ATI cards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted December 27, 2005 Share Posted December 27, 2005 I think that they should work on that and take some adventages of nVidia&ATI cards You should see how slow it can be without the Quadro card. But also, a lot of it is how you work. 100,000 polys is on the high side for Sketchup - you can reduce this while editing by using components efficiently with stand-ins, or making layers you're not using invisible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_boghy Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 Hi.. I allso have a Quadro FX 1500 graphic card and things are getting slow pretty rapidly. But I noticed that when the scene in loaded with polys and i turn on shadows sketchup goes into a state that makes everything move very smooth. The only thing that changes into that state is the shadows from the volume are turn off (shadow on the ground plane stays on). Sketchup stays in this state as long as I move around. As soon as I stop moving in goes back to the original state. I wonder what is that "magic state" called. How can i get into it whenever I what... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadmunkey Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 Having shadows switched on in sketchup kills the performance pretty quickly even on a monster machine. Blame Google for not developing the product as it should have for release 7. Release 8 will have to be pretty special compared i.e. 64bit support would be a start!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_boghy Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 The thing is sometimes i turn shadows on on purpose, to make sketchup go into that "trance state" in which the scene moves smoothly. All i have to do is overcrowd the scene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt McDonald Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 -Make sure you have recent Quadro drivers - 5303 is old. I'm not sure what I've got for the 900, I'm on the laptop now and it's running 7203 (took a bit of hacking to make that install - it's a Dell - but it improved the performance) Slightly OT but Andrew: any tips on getting the newer Quadro drivers to work on your Dell laptop? I've looked into Laptop Video 2go but it seems like that site is oriented towards the GeForce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 Ooh, I dunno, I've been on Mac for the laptop since 2006 and I don't even use any nVidia products anymore Though I've got a Geforce card sitting around that I'll put in the PC if I ever decide to convert it to a Hackintosh - there aren't a FireGL drivers for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadmunkey Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 The thing is sometimes i turn shadows on on purpose, to make sketchup go into that "trance state" in which the scene moves smoothly. All i have to do is overcrowd the scene. Hi, all you have to do is orbit very fast and it goes into the 'fast' state that you mention. But it will work even better with shadows off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 The thing is sometimes i turn shadows on on purpose, to make sketchup go into that "trance state" in which the scene moves smoothly. All i have to do is overcrowd the scene. How many poly's are we talking about here? Using components it's very easy to run up the polygon count, and unfortunately there are some very (bad) high poly models out there - like a lot of the furniture, trees, cars, etc. found on 3D Warehouse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt McDonald Posted May 31, 2009 Share Posted May 31, 2009 Ooh, I dunno, I've been on Mac for the laptop since 2006 and I don't even use any nVidia products anymore Stupid me, I didn't see that your post was three and half years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted June 1, 2009 Share Posted June 1, 2009 Yeah, it even has me saying 100,000 polys is on the high side Ahh, the pre-Core2 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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