Slow Performance in 3dsmax 5: Need Tips

[Oktavian]

Have you tried to turn off Norton?
On one of my former machines Norton was the cause for slowing down.

[Marcel]

A Mesh of a simple TIRE slowed down 3dsmax to a crawl

How many polygons has this 'simple' tire?

[zarkos]

I had same problem but it was because of Direct x. Try to change the video settings to open GL

[neversong]

norton does a lot of slowing down to computer, unless all you do is wordprocessing or web surfing.

I've seen a lot of people saying directX is much more stable.
isn't it?
(I'm using openGL though)

[dvornik]

Use OpenGL as a viewport driver. Turn vertical sync off. Turn nview and desktop utilities off unless you use them.

Or use Softquadro4 and Maxtreme (still turn vert. sync off). That will speed things up considerably but is much more involved and easy to screw up.

[Viper3d]

polycount = 25k... that seems awful high. I was simply following a tutorial for doing a tire... how else can i go about modeling tires without getting such a high poly... but keep the detail.

I turned off norton, and it didn't help much if any. Vertical sync is always off... i'll try some of the other suggestions.

(edit)I tried changing to directx 9 instead of 8.1... see if that helps. I'll try openGL shortly... (just found it)

[Six Black Roses]

You can use NURBS.

[Viper3d]

Directx 9 failed to initialize, so I went with OpenGL... after removing the mesh smooth and adding a mesh select, things seemed better. I'll see what else I can dig up and try to make it go faster, something still seems odd.


on another note... i was simply disabling norton's realtime protection, is that what you mean by turning off norton? or do you mean ctrl-alt-del and killing its process completely?

[Dave Black]

Check to make sure that your "WINLOGON" is not stealing processing power. If it is, it's a sure sign that you have a serious conflict between norton and cdilla.

It could be that 25K polys is causing a problem, but that number is not too high. For one tire, though, I would say it's up there.

-3DZ

:D

[Joebount]

Originally posted by Six Black Roses
You can use NURBS.

You funny guy, you made my day !!! :applause:

[Viper3d]

nope winlogon doesn't budge, took maybe 1% outta the 5 min or so I was watching 3dsmax and task manager (moving around the tire... adding mesh smooth and such). Seems norton isn't causing it then... whats the softquadro and maxtreme that someone mentioned?

[lukx]

http://www.nvworld.ru/index_e.shtml

this is all about softquadro, but personaly I don't recommend softquadro on Geforce for me it was quite unstable. Now I got nivida quadro 750xgl and with maxtreme it's really nice and not so expensive choice

[Viper3d]

i was afraid thats what softquadro was hehe. I remember seeing this a while ago. I've never gotten the courage to do it, in fear that I might screw something up. Is it all that hard to do?

[RockinAkin]

Sounds to me like you've got a general problem with your computer's performance, not just specific to max.

I can rotate ~200k scenes with little problems, and I've got half the computer you've got.

The "DirectX failed to initialize" is the part that sets off a red flag for me.
You shouldn't have any problems with either DirectX or OpenGL. (I find DirectX to be faster, but thats just me).

Go here: http://www.futuremark.com and download "FutureMark 2001 SE".

Run the benchmark and compare your score with their online results brower, just to make sure your computer performs on the same level as other computers with your exact same setup.

Then, if you're underperforming, download the latest Motherboard and Chipset Drivers, nVidia Drivers, DirectX 8.1

Good Luck,
-DivideByZero-

[RockinAkin]

Oh, i just realized after rereading your post:

DirectX 9 needs a service pack (downloadable from discreet.com) to run correctly in max.

But you shouldn't even be using DX9, since your video card cant handle any DX9 extensions.

Try the max service pack, and see if the performance improves... then get rid of DX9 (there are some DX uninstaller softwares out there, just do a google search), try installing 8.1

-DivideByZero-

[DanSilverman]

He shouldn't have to get rid of DirectX 9 as I believe DirectX 8 extensions are, to some degree, supported. Therefore, he can run MAX in DirectX mode selecting DirectX 8 even if DirectX 9 is installed on his system. He may need DirectX 9 for some games or other applications, so there is no reason to revert back to DirectX 8.

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