System Question

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Permalink Reply by Kunal Ghevaria on January 26, 2012 at 8:26pm

Can you post your machine config details, so people can get an idea if the hardware is the problem?

Personally, I've found HUGE improvements with 64-bit Rhino / V-Ray when rendering...

I'd highly recommend upgrading to a 64-bit OS.

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Permalink Reply by Charles Fee on January 26, 2012 at 9:15pm

64 bit Software upgrade is probably in the near future. I'm working on it !

However, as mentioned in my post, that's not a viable solution to the problem at hand.

I'm running an i7-2600/3.4+, NVIDEA 550t/1gb, 16Gb RAM, 1 TB 7200 RPM h.d. Win-7/64-Pro.

As mentioned in my post, I'm not having the problem on a Win-Vista/32, 4gb RAM core-2duo 3.1Ghz under an NVIDEA-240 1GB. Its not likely a hardware problem.

There may be unanticipated capacity issues in a 32-bit session under -7/64-Pro even tho early press had -7 as  lighter in a 4Gb space than Vista !

There may be RHINO issues that release internal data like the image attached to a surface even tho the links remain and the images are intact, because RHINO's marginal memory management has been a significant issue to deal with since version 3.0 and seems to remain. Upgrading to 64 bit systems sounds nice, and may lie in some people's future, but a corporate user who can't go outside that system and purchase a new 64 bit system when they want one doesn't have that bandaid. An individual without the budget to drop the kind of money I did for my new system is similarly constrained.

Mcneel's insistence that we look at lots of RAM in a new 64 bit system as the solution for poor memory management doesn't solve a problem that really shouldn't exist. I can't really fault them. They can't anticipate all of the ways we are going to use their product. That my models are routinely around 375 Mb with extensive animation steps is something they couldn't anticipate. BUT that they seem to run ok in a 32bit Vista system but not in a 32bit session on a 64bit system remains an unsolved problem.

Thanks for any help anyone can offer !

Charley.

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Permalink Reply by Kunal Ghevaria on January 26, 2012 at 9:30pm

That sure is a mystery... I agree that the memory management is not great in Rhino.

Hope you find a solution soon!

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