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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
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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
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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
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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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              • 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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                                  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...... 😕
                                  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

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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. 😞 What do u think about that ? Could some mac users confirm these results ?

                                          And 7.1pro version is really impressive. 😍

                                          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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