New computer

notareal

Ok TBD you wanted an update... the computer is lightning fast, that is until you apply a transparency to a material or go to xray mode. I have tried turning off fast feedback and even turning off hardware acceleration with no success. It appears to be slower than my old machine when in xray mode, however I have not done a side by side yet (my wife is working too).

Any ideas?

Perhaps some nvidia driver issue? 8800GT is fairly fast, but I think whole 8x00 series OpenGL support is ...what to say... a bit lacking. I wonder if the reason is to support Quadro FX sales.

solo

I did some trials and tests to see if that phenomenon would happen to me, even in the most minimal way.
I just could not get that result.
In fact I accelerated on x-ray (at least it felt faster, maybe if I used an enormous model I would be able to get a more definite result) and stayed the same on transparency (again with bigger model a clearer result would be possible)
I used an AMD dual core for this test with one 8800 GTX on single display mode. I am not sure if the fact that this rig has force-ware drivers and direct X 10 helps, I cannot mimic your rig as all my machines including my Intel Quads use the new force-ware drivers and DX 10.

gata

I have a new Duo-Core Intel mobo, DirectX 9, 2 GB paging file, XP Pro, 2 GB RAM, EVGA nVidia 8600 GTS and no issues in SU other than occasionally some weird selection box outlines.

Maybe there could be some more optimal BIOS settings for your card.

boofredlay

Pete & gata, thanks for the replies. Sorry I have not been able to check this agian for a while.

It seems the slowdown I experienced occoured in one file alone. There must have been something off with that file, a glitch or something. I have modified it and it works just fine now. I also did a "side by side" with my work machine, old home machine and this new one... the new one definately smokes the other two even in xray mode.

For now, at least, everything is hunky dory

boofredlay

I did a test with a much higher poly model too... new machine is laughing at me and saying;
"Is that all you got man!?"