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Re: can anyone suggest me best hardware configration for combustion
by warren BONES (bones) on May 14, 2008 at 2:30:32 am

I disagree on the video card front - I would never run anything other than QuadroFX. Even a cheap one with 128Mb RAM will work better with Combustion than a high-end GeForce or ATI card, because they have good, compliant OpenGL drivers. Combustion uses OpenGL for many things, not just particles [it uses it to draw the GUI, for instance].

As Dean says, any kind of disk array will be big help if you use a lot of layers. I just have two SATA-II drives in RAID-0 and I get much better performance than I used to from a single HDD. Some people will tell you to get lots of RAM but I find it a distraction. I try to limit my cache to about 1Gb so that I don't spend too long sitting around waiting for previews to cache. Combustion is also multi-threaded, so a Quad-Core CPU will also speed a lot of things up.

I'm a contractor for Autodesk at the moment but, unless otherwise stated, all opinions expressed here are my own.


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