Computer Upgrade
by Lee Brennan
on
Jun 20, 2008 at 11:59:43 pm
Hi,
What can I do to my computer to help it run Particle Illusion better? When I place certain emitters on the stage they slow down -they don't run in real time. Hard to tell what the finished product will look like.
I have : 3200+ AMD/Athlon XP Processor; NVIDIA GEforce fx5200 graphics card (this is the most I could get because of a 250 watt power supply); 1 GB RAM (I think I can go to 2GB). Other than purchasing a higher end workstation is there anything else I can do? Thanks for any suggestions.
Re: Computer Upgrade by Alan Lorence on Jun 21, 2008 at 12:14:55 pm
First thing to do is get the latest drivers from nvidia.com. This could make a big difference in speed.
And make sure pIllusion is set to use hardware acceleration in the OpenGL page of the Preferences.
If you need to add a lot of emitters, add them in layers. Add a couple, render out with alpha, then replace the emitters with the rendered version, then add more emitters, etc.
Finally, you can zoom the stage out to speed things up a bit. I do this sometimes on my slower machines.
