Performance!

[deefield]

Hope someone can shed some light on this. We have a (specially built) machine for working on Sketchup and Rendering using Kerkythea. The machine spec is as follows:-
64 Bit
Windows 7 Pro
Intel(R) Core(TM) ;7 CPU
930 @ 2.80GHz
12 Gb Ram.
Open GL and hardware acceleration etc
Using Sketchup 7 and Kerkthea 2008 Echo.
Despite all this if I am working on a large drawing (School Interiors with desks and chairs etc) Sketchup is usable but slow. Should I expect better performance from our machine?
Some thoughts :::
I can obviously improve things if I isolate by layer and turn off say the furniture.
Using SU 7 as I need to import ACAD dwgs. ( No freebie importer available yet for SU8 )
Kerkthea Rendering is OK but not mindbogglingly quick as was hoped!.
Both these programs are 32 bit. Was it a bit of waste specifying a 64 bit machine.
Would value anyones comments.
Regards Dave

[EscapeArtist]

Kerkythea should do just fine on that setup. SU cannot take advantage of multi-cores or 64-bits, so that will limit performance to single core. May I suggest separating you model by layers so that you'll have less on screen at the time, this will speed things up a bit.

[Gaieus]

@escapeartist said:

SU cannot take advantage of ... 64-bits...

Note that SU is now "Large Address Aware" on 64 bit OS - true however that this should only boost some performance when memory intensive tasks - like high resolution image export - are being performed so will not help with navigating in a "live" model and such.

[thomthom]

@gaieus said:

@escapeartist said:

SU cannot take advantage of ... 64-bits...

Note that SU is now "Large Address Aware" on 64 bit OS - true however that this should only boost some performance when memory intensive tasks - like high resolution image export - are being performed so will not help with navigating in a "live" model and such.

I won't boost performance in terms of speed. It just ensures you don't run out of memory too quickly.

[deefield]

Thanks for your - hasty- replies. Yes looks like layers area good option! Regards Dave Ringwood. England.