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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 โ€” 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 โ€” 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. ๐Ÿ˜•
            (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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            • B Offline
              blajnov
              last edited by

              I had such result, without shadows and with shadows...


              test.jpg

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              • W Offline
                Wacov
                last edited by

                @wacov said:

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

                Time test1.png

                Now, on SU7.1, using the same setup (At a higher resolution):

                Test2.png
                That's a massive difference!
                The message? Get 7.1. NOW.

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

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                • bazB Offline
                  baz
                  last edited by

                  [/quote]
                  Now, on SU7.1, using the same setup (At a higher resolution):
                  That's a massive difference!
                  The message? Get 7.1. NOW.[/quote]

                  I got the message, wow!
                  Baz


                  shad off V7.0


                  shad off, V7.1

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                  • G Offline
                    glenn
                    last edited by

                    Interesting test results:
                    XP sp3, duo 2.8, 4gb ram, 8500gt 512mb

                    Ran it with SU7.1, then saved it as SU6 and ran it with v6.4
                    Glenn


                    v71 no shadows.jpg

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                    • G Offline
                      glenn
                      last edited by

                      hmmmm...I can't upload multiple images?
                      ok, got it, sorry.


                      v71 shadows.jpg


                      v64 no shadows.jpg


                      v64 shadows.jpg

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                      • brodieB Offline
                        brodie
                        last edited by

                        I got 21.1 fps with shadows off.

                        Computer specs are in my signature below

                        -Brodie

                        steelblue http://www.steelbluellc.com

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                        • GaieusG Offline
                          Gaieus
                          last edited by

                          Glenn,

                          Now that's some impressive speed increase (of course, there areno textures in the model and such but still)

                          Brodie;
                          OK-ok... there are your computer specs but we don't know (just suspect maybe) what SU version you have!

                          Gai...

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                          • jeff hammondJ Offline
                            jeff hammond
                            last edited by

                            i didn't run this pre su7.1 but i'm willing to assume a huge difference since upgrading...
                            with an older quad mac..
                            screen 5.jpg
                            screen 6.jpg

                            with shadow ON:
                            screen 3.jpg

                            shadows OFF:
                            screen 4.jpg

                            dotdotdot

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                            • W Offline
                              Wacov
                              last edited by

                              ๐Ÿ˜ฒ

                              Does SU run better on Macs? Or is it your RAM? Because... 150 fps... ? Wow...

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

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                                Ultimatez 32
                                last edited by

                                Here's something odd.....I tried the test on 2 models, one the test model and the other one my roller coaster model. Here's the result.....quite suprising:
                                coaster model
                                test model
                                The picture below shows my computer stats...... ๐Ÿ˜•
                                system.png
                                It's a laptop by the way

                                Windows 7 64-bit, Intel Core i3 M350 @2.27GHz, nVidia GEFORCE 310M 512Mb with CUDA, 4gb RAM

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                                • GaieusG Offline
                                  Gaieus
                                  last edited by

                                  How about the video card and OpenGL hardware support ("acceleration" in Preferences > OpenGL)?

                                  Gai...

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

                                    I got new Notebook so here's the results

                                    Test with No Shadows.jpg

                                    Test with Shadows.jpg

                                    Notebook Details.jpg

                                    Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp ๐Ÿ“–

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                                    • jeff hammondJ Offline
                                      jeff hammond
                                      last edited by

                                      @wacov said:

                                      :shock:

                                      Does SU run better on Macs? Or is it your RAM? Because... 150 fps... ? Wow...

                                      i'm not sure because i've never used windows for comparison.. there was an export test around here a while ago in which the macs were able to export jpgs at more than twice the size as windows but other than that, i haven't seen anything alluding to SU being better with OS X..
                                      in fact, there are often things i see that work on PCs that i can't do.

                                      dotdotdot

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                                      • F Offline
                                        francois le francais
                                        last edited by

                                        MY CONFIG : macbook pro - mid 2009 unibody 15" 4GbRam 512Mo 9600MGT HD500gb 5400rpm - snow leopard 10.6.1
                                        I ve run the cube test with each graphic configuration on the same machine running sketchup pro 7.0, and results are quite surprising :

                                        9400M : 5.336s - 27.4665s (shadows on) -- with SU7.1= 1.228 - 1.229(shadows on)
                                        9600M GT : 5.327s - 27,669s (shadows on) --with SU7.1= 1.324 - 1.225(shadows on)

                                        I've run the same test with my architecture diploma file (40000m2 hotel+parking+many cars+trees and textures = 4mb files)

                                        9400M : 6.572s - 99.579s (shadows on) --with SU7.1= 4.774 - 5.074(shadows on)
                                        9600M GT : 6.601s - 101.156s (shadows on) --with SU7.1= 5.034 -5.225(shadows on)

                                        That confirms my impression, I can't notice any difference between running sketchup with 9400 and with 9600. ๐Ÿ˜ž What do u think about that ? Could some mac users confirm these results ?

                                        And 7.1pro version is really impressive. ๐Ÿ˜

                                        related link (hardware recommendation) :
                                        http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=10750&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=285

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                                        • P Offline
                                          Pete
                                          last edited by

                                          Here are results form Macbook Pro 13"

                                          hardware.gif
                                          graphics.gif
                                          results.gif

                                          Strangely, I was getting 15-16 fps then I turned on shadows and it increased??

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                                          • AnssiA Offline
                                            Anssi
                                            last edited by

                                            My results, first test with no shadows
                                            test-1.png
                                            This one with shadows on
                                            test-2.png

                                            • core i7-860, 2.8GHz
                                            • 8 GB memory
                                            • Nvidia QuadroFX 1800 graphics card with 768 Mb memory
                                            • 1080 x 1920 screen, SU maximized
                                            • Windows 7 Pro 64-bit

                                            securi adversus homines, securi adversus deos rem difficillimam adsecuti sunt, ut illis ne voto quidem opus esset

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