Layout very slow

Obleyo · 8 Oct 2016, 22:12

I am using:

iMac 27" Late 2013
3.5 GHz i7
16 gigs of memory
3 gig fusion drive
Nvidia GeForce GTX 780M 4096 MB

Plenty of power there.

I am working on a relatively small model in Sketchup, 1.8 million edges and 450K faces, but I have almost all my layers turned off. I am bringing scenes into Layout for construction drawings. The models move quickly in Sketchup, but when I bring them into Layout there is a huge drag when I attempt to do anything. Moving, drawing, zooming in/out.

I have set the display res. to low and output to high. I've tried purging all in Sketchup. No avail.

Please help.

Thanks,

Joel

JQL · 9 Oct 2016, 08:20

Are you sure your GPU is being used in layout?

Can you access some kind of Nvidia settings where you could find which apps are being run on the gpu?

kaas · 9 Oct 2016, 08:41

@Jql Very interesting. I never added layout to Nvidia's gpu program list. I only used SketchUp in the list. Does it really need to be on the list? Any special settings to change in regarding to layout?

JQL · 9 Oct 2016, 09:13

What I know is that I also had a similar issue and that solved it. I have no info on preferred settings.

kaas · 9 Oct 2016, 16:48

@pbacot: if you have an Nvidia gfx card, open the Nvidia control panel (in Windows system settings - no idea where on OSX) and look for the program list. Make sure SketchUp is on the list

pbacot · 9 Oct 2016, 16:51

@kaas said:

@Jql Very interesting. I never added layout to Nvidia's gpu program list. I only used SketchUp in the list. Does it really need to be on the list? Any special settings to change in regarding to layout?

Where can you do that?

pbacot · 9 Oct 2016, 16:51

@kaas said:

@pbacot: if you have an Nvidia gfx card, open the Nvidia control panel (in Windows system settings - no idea where on OSX) and look for the program list. Make sure SketchUp is on the list

We're talking Macs here. I looked in System Preferences and searched with the (idiot) Spotlight search, but I don't see anything. My card is NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB

bmike · 12 Oct 2016, 21:03

@pbacot said:

@kaas said:

@pbacot: if you have an Nvidia gfx card, open the Nvidia control panel (in Windows system settings - no idea where on OSX) and look for the program list. Make sure SketchUp is on the list

We're talking Macs here. I looked in System Preferences and searched with the (idiot) Spotlight search, but I don't see anything. My card is NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB

Open LO and get it loaded up with a drawing.
Then go to About this Mac and it will tell you what card it is using...

Should automatically switch over.

pbacot · 12 Oct 2016, 21:35

I assumed it was using only the one card I have... but I guess this card doesn't have any way to list what programs are in use. Should I get a new graphics card to boost performance of either program?---I had never heard this was possible. In general I have never heard that I could get better performance for SU or LO...by upgrading the computer, except maybe changing to Windows.

JQL · 12 Oct 2016, 22:32

upgrading a mac? Are you sane? I heard it's perfect so no need for hardware changes.

I love imperfection so I use Windows... Linux should be better but no Sketchup.

I can tell you that, with windows, changing from a laptop with an nVidia 425M with 1Gb to a Titan X with 12 Gb, simply changed everything I knew about LO and SU.

I feel it's a different software, and though it has limitations, performance has increased so drastically I cannot conceive how I could cope with it.