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    • TIGT Offline
      TIG Moderator
      last edited by

      My PC is an Advent Intel Core2 Quad 2.4GHz with 4Mb RAM - Vista SP2, NVIDIA GeForce 8300 GS
      Without's OK... but with shadows !


      Times.png

      TIG

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      • C Offline
        chango70
        last edited by

        @escapeartist said:

        Wow. I got 21 FPS in a previous post without turning shadows on, I figured I'd give it a shot with shadows to see what happens. SU shadows are nasty, apparently:

        That's a pretty serious hit.

        Thats high! What is your setup?

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        • EscapeArtistE Offline
          EscapeArtist
          last edited by

          It's way back at post #8 on page 1, but here ya go:

          E8400 Core Duo
          EVGA 9800GTX+ x 2 in SLi
          4 GB OCZ RAM
          EVGA 780i FTW
          WinXP SP3

          Nothing overclocked.

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          • D Offline
            diana
            last edited by

            Sony Vaio VGNFS660W laptop, which I've had for almost four years.
            Intel® Pentium® M Processor 740 (1.73GHz1 , 2MB L2 Cache)
            1GB PC-2700 333MHz DDR (512MB x 2)
            NVIDIA® GeForce™ Go 6200 with TurboCache™ supporting
            128MB (NVIDIA® TurboCache™ technology combines the size and
            bandwidth of video memory and dynamically available
            WinXP Home SP2

            VAIO laptop results

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            • W Offline
              Wacov
              last edited by

              Using a Q6600 at 2.4GhZ, 4GB DDR2 RAM, and a GTX 295:

              Time test1.png

              I reckon I'm let down by my CPU clock. I get 2.5 FPS with shadows... and up to 15 FPS by making my SU window insanely small ^_^

              http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/cldetails?mid=3096a836877fb9af6cd8ad826e9017b8&prevstart=0

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              • GaieusG Offline
                Gaieus
                last edited by

                New machine:

                • 3.0 GHz Dual core CPU
                • nVidia 9600 (1Gb) GPU
                • 4Gb RAM
                • Windows XP SP3 (32 bit)

                This seems to be pretty fast with NO SHADOWS
                With SHADOWS ON, it's considerably slower.
                Did I tell you that I like this new computer? 😄
                And even my girlfriend likes it as it has a nice box/house, too (with a 22" Samsung monitor) 😉

                Gai...

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                • C Offline
                  chango70
                  last edited by

                  @escapeartist said:

                  It's way back at post #8 on page 1, but here ya go:

                  E8400 Core Duo
                  EVGA 9800GTX+ x 2 in SLi
                  4 GB OCZ RAM
                  EVGA 780i FTW
                  WinXP SP3

                  Nothing overclocked.

                  Hmmm. I didn't realise SU can take advantage of SLi setup. I read that it doesn't even scale linearly in most games. Apparently it does scale with SU. Otherwise GTX 280 from Solo's setup would have achieved higher score.

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                  • Rich O BrienR Offline
                    Rich O Brien Moderator
                    last edited by

                    Here's my result on an old laptop that's slowly dying 😢

                    Dell Latitude D400
                    Intel Pentium M 1700Mhz
                    1GB RAM
                    Intel 82855 GME Graphics Controller

                    Without Shadows

                    With Shadows

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                    • GaieusG Offline
                      Gaieus
                      last edited by

                      Ouch. 😞

                      Gai...

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                      • Rich O BrienR Offline
                        Rich O Brien Moderator
                        last edited by

                        Here's the result on my Desktop

                        Dell Dimension 9150
                        Intel Pentium D 3.40Ghz
                        2GB RAM
                        Nvidia GeForce 7900GS

                        Without Shadows

                        With Shadows

                        Bit of an improvement over my Laptop but not as impressive as Gaeius' new machine 😳

                        Have fun with it

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                        • GaieusG Offline
                          Gaieus
                          last edited by

                          Now consider that it's new, the Windows registry is hardly messed up (which is unusual on MY machines 😄 )and not too many programs are installed yet. I will remember this thread in a couple of months and revisit to see if there's a considerable slowdown.

                          Gai...

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                          • arail1A Offline
                            arail1
                            last edited by

                            Gaieus -
                            Those are impressive numbers. Could you tell us which CPU you have?

                            Thanks

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                            • arail1A Offline
                              arail1
                              last edited by

                              I'm curious about this -
                              My (rather underpowered) computer -

                              AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual Core 5000 2.6 GHz
                              NIVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430
                              1GB PC2-5300
                              2GB DDR2 PC2-8500
                              32 bit Vista Home

                              My results -

                              No textures or shadows:
                              72 frames in 7.228 seconds
                              Average frame = 0.100 seconds
                              10.00 frames/second

                              With textures (1 wood texture on the whole group):
                              72 frames in 30.46 seconds
                              Average frame = 0.423 seconds
                              2.4 frames/second

                              With shadows on:
                              72 frames in 34.9 seconds
                              Average frame = 0.485 seconds
                              2.1 frames/second

                              I'm going to upgrade the video card on this computer in a couple of weeks. I'm limited in my options because it's a HP Slimline so I can only use a low profile card. But no matter what it is, the memory available for the GPU will be increased. If I understand the situation correctly (which is doubtful) I should see better scores on the texture and shadow tests because it's the GPU that's handling texture and shading, right?

                              I invite anyone who is actually knowledgeable about such matters to correct me if I've totally misunderstood this issue.

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                              • GaieusG Offline
                                Gaieus
                                last edited by

                                @arail1 said:

                                Gaieus -
                                Those are impressive numbers. Could you tell us which CPU you have?

                                Thanks

                                Here is a screenshot of the processor(s) and the video card. Since the test above, I found that SU performed glitchy with certain models and updated my video driver (but haven't made another test yet).


                                Specs.png

                                Gai...

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                                • thomthomT Offline
                                  thomthom
                                  last edited by

                                  Very interesting test. 🤓


                                  Without shadows


                                  With shadows

                                  Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                  List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                  • thomthomT Offline
                                    thomthom
                                    last edited by

                                    Where does this Test.time_display command come from? Some undocumented debug feature?

                                    Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                    List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                    • thomthomT Offline
                                      thomthom
                                      last edited by

                                      From a quick glance at the results - it looks like shadows are averaging to be 5 times slower than without.

                                      Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                      List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                      • thomthomT Offline
                                        thomthom
                                        last edited by

                                        Without shadows

                                        (CPU OC to 3.2GHZ)

                                        With Shadows

                                        Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                        List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                        • D Offline
                                          DIEGO-RODRIGUEZ
                                          last edited by

                                          Windows XP sp3
                                          Pentium D965 3.4ghz
                                          3.00gb RAM ddr2 400mhz

                                          Without shadows

                                          http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/6665/testzzc.jpg

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                                          • GaieusG Offline
                                            Gaieus
                                            last edited by

                                            Still the same machine as here but with SU 7.1 now:

                                            • 3.0 GHz Dual core CPU
                                            • nVidia 9600 (1Gb) GPU
                                            • 4Gb RAM
                                            • Windows XP SP3 (32 bit)
                                              To me, the improvement in speed (with this test model) is very stunning:

                                            Shadows off
                                            Shadows on
                                            Interesting that no matter how many times I tried, the performance was better with shadows on. 😕
                                            (Of course while making the test with shadows on now, SU temporarily turns them off for increasing orbiting and such but still...)

                                            Gai...

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