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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

      Download the free D'oh Book for SketchUp πŸ“–

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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 πŸ˜„ )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. πŸ€“


                Without shadows


                With shadows

                Thomas Thomassen β€” 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 β€” 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 β€” 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 β€” 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. πŸ˜•
                          (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

                                            😲

                                            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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