Slow performance

[theodosia]

Hello guys..i am working from Greece and i have the same problem when i creating a scene with 3ds models which have many polygones.Scetch works so slowly and also i cannot render my scene.Why??
my pc details:intel core i7 CPU,ram 6GB,windows 7

[mhtaylor]

I'm guessing you've gone through the suggestions on sketchup sage: https://sites.google.com/site/sketchupsage/faster/ ? I believe SketchUp is a 32 bit app and can't use more than 2gb memory.

[theodosia]

i tryied all the render trials for scetch up..finally i am working with render[in]because in the duration i am working with my scene i have beside the preview of the rendered scene and i am finishing faster..but the same problem.when i have a scene of 100 and up MB stucks and tells error report.the program closes.

[Rich O Brien]

You could try exporting your scene to Kerkythea(free) and rendering in that. It's a studio based app so it handles large scenes with ease.

@Martin

SU is now LAA enabled so if you run it on 64bit systems it avails of extra RAM.

[mhtaylor]

@unknownuser said:

You could try exporting your scene to Kerkythea(free) and rendering in that. It's a studio based app so it handles large scenes with ease.

@Martin

SU is now LAA enabled so if you run it on 64bit systems it avails of extra RAM.

Thanks for the heads up - I did try to work SU hard and monitor the amount of CPU and RAM consumed - I can't get SU to take more than half the 8gb I have installed even when it was struggling to manipulate a 500k edge model. Is there something I can do to improve this? I'm running Vista 64.

[solo]

Theodosia, I still maintain that a studio based renderer will solve your problem.

[Gaieus]

@mhtaylor said:

...I can't get SU to take more than half the 8gb I have installed...

LAA will not use as much RAM as you have on a 64 bit system just up to 4 Gb (and that seems to work for you). If LAA weren't there, it could only use 2 Gb (or with some hack, even on a 32 bit system, 3Gb but it may not be stable)