Slow PC
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Hi
I'm fairly new to sketchup.
My PC is new and has a pretty high spec but struggles with moderately detailed sketchup models.
I have HPz400 workstation with dual core 1.8Ghz processor. This delivers the equivalent of a single core 3.2Ghz. The video card is an NVIDEA Quadro NVS with 128Mb RAM. Its a 32 bit operating system with 4gb of ram.
Maybe worth mentioning that I run two screen on digital output.
I'd be very grateful of any pointers on how to boost my system as its holding me back.
regards
Paul -
Sketchup doesn't care about dual-core unfortunatly. But it should run pretty smooth on that system.
Make sure to have 'hardware acceleration' enabled.If it is, change the way you work with Sketchup. It is a program that doesn't handle big files well, so make sure to keep the size of it low.
Model only what you need [seems stupid to say, but it was something I'd run into very often when I first used Sketchup] also make use of components and last but not least, shadows will slow your model down. -
The Quadro NVS video card is not a good choice for SketchUp. It is designed to be a cheap card for business applications with multiple monitors (like computers in stock dealing halls) and has poor 3D performance. I don't know if it currently supports OpenGL (some time ago it didn't). The Quadro name in this case is misleading - the professional 3D cards belong to the Quadro FX series or newer. But SU runs quite well with the "consumer" cards (GeForce etc.) too. Your CPU is also rather slow.
Anssi
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SketchUp is a single processor application, so you need at least one 3Ghz+ processor to max it out. SketchUp speed IMHO, is primarily a function of bus, processor, and hard drive speeds.
You can set your bios to give preference to the top application (when in SketchUp). In addition, reduce the number of multi tasking programs in the background when SketchUping.
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I'd also say that 1.8 GHz is pretty slow. I have a dual core @ 3.0 GHz and it runs pretty nicely to me. As said, in this case the matter is how much you have on a single core (dual cores do not hurt however because at least other applications can run on the other core).
As for the video card. 128 Mb is also pretty low. It's about 1/4 of the suggested system requirements listed here (also it says a 2GHz processor or higher - I understand that yours can also be overclocked a bit but it will stay on the lower end anyway):
http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=36208 -
Thanks all, very helpful
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