manojglobal Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Hello everyone SketchUp is designed to run on systems with graphics cards. Generally there three types of Graphic Cards in SketchUp - ATI, NVIDIA, Intel. Comments most welcome... Regards Manoj Singh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kippu Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 err...okay so what about it now? who refused or who debated what exactly is the point of this thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alias_marks Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 (edited) here's what you wanna do. Get 12 GB of memory on your workstation (24gb is even better), partition a couple gigs of it as a virtual drive (*there are $30 programs with 30 day trials that will do this) then copy your sketchup files to that partitioned 'hard drive space' launch your 100 mb + sketchup files from there and they will run like butter. or at least they will compared to what your used to. However, watch out when you restart your comp cause memory will obviously be erased, and it's important to re-save your sketchup file to a hard drive beforehand. edit... PS. this thread is obviously about graphics cards, but I'm guessing you're asking the question because you'd like better performance from your sketchup files. My suggestion is to go this route instead of looking to graphics cards for the solution. Back when we were testing graphics card to improve sketchup performance, the diff was nill from the $500 card up to the $3000 card. just my 2c from experience... take it for what it's worth... it was just over a year ago now... Edited March 5, 2010 by alias_marks PS comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 Manoj: You are correct. SketchUp was designed to run on systems with graphics cards. Were you wondering what graphics card you need? Anything from ATI/AMD or nVidia that's not the bottom of the line. No shared memory or HyperMemory or TurboCache garbage (except where there's already 512MB on the card and the shared is just for showing off) and a decent GPU. A Radeon 4850 is a really excellent value in OpenGL performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andstef Posted March 5, 2010 Share Posted March 5, 2010 [...] SketchUp is designed to run on systems with graphics cards. [..] It sure is... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manojglobal Posted March 6, 2010 Author Share Posted March 6, 2010 Manoj: You are correct. SketchUp was designed to run on systems with graphics cards. Keep it up and thanks for the share with us. Regards Manoj Singh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 Well this has been very interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Buchhofer Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 haha no respect.. interesting thought about the ram drive.. never tried that trick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kippu Posted March 7, 2010 Share Posted March 7, 2010 forget the ram drive , i am going to try sketchup with graphics cards first Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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