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DDS
12-31-2005, 12:30 AM
Hi!

I own a dual core 4400 system, with 2 gigs of Platinium OCX RAM and a 7800 GTX ultra whatever (the best I found 3 months ago). I was making a non-organic model in 3dsmax and I got more than 3 milions of polys with a couple subdivisions for everyobject in the scene. I could work with everything in scene at full speed, thanks to polyspeed, which uses several techniques to optimize 3dsmax.

However, in modo the un-subdivided mesh is already slow. If I subdivide with the default SDS the viewport runs at 2-3fps and if I want to use Smooth Subdivision it crashes during the process.

Is there any way of optimizing modo viewport? Does anybody know if 201 will be able to handle that? Do I have to buy an ATI? I'm sure that this amazing software can handle that with my card :) (which is almost the best one for "non-professional use")

That's kinda serious for me because I'm responsible of high density meshes for vehicles and characters...and this one wasn't the worst at all. I can't really tell my boss that i'll be making lower-density meshes from now on :deal:

Thanks for your help!
Mattoo
12-31-2005, 01:56 AM
The latest nVidia drivers have been very bad for Modo (and Maya) performance, most people I know are still running v71.84.
I couldn't even get Modo to run with the latest driver set.

nVidia have always pandered to the MAX crowed - they even do specific MAX drivers as you've pointed out. I'm not surprised at all that MAX displays better performance.

I don't think ATi would benefit you any more, most likely less. I know from recent experience that even an old Quadro card will out perform even the most recent GeForce offerings for raw OpenGL rendering in Maya and Modo.
Dirit
12-31-2005, 06:04 PM
The latest nVidia drivers have been very bad for Modo (and Maya) performance, most people I know are still running v71.84.
I couldn't even get Modo to run with the latest driver set.

nVidia have always pandered to the MAX crowed - they even do specific MAX drivers as you've pointed out. I'm not surprised at all that MAX displays better performance.

I don't think ATi would benefit you any more, most likely less. I know from recent experience that even an old Quadro card will out perform even the most recent GeForce offerings for raw OpenGL rendering in Maya and Modo.

How could i get a previous driver for Nvidia in my Powermac?

My Nvidia 6600 is behaviouring very slow now.
nvvm
01-01-2006, 09:11 AM
say what you will about ati but I havent had driver issues running modo with ati cards.
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