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jasonhuang1115
10-17-2009, 09:17 PM
Hi,

I am currently running on rig composed of a i7-920, 6GB RAM, Quadro 1700 (512 MB), and XP x64.

When I have Photoshop CS4 (64-bit) (using ~1.2 GB RAM), Mudbox (using~1.8 GB RAM), Maya (using~1.x GB RAM), and other apps like Adobe Bridge and Firefox loaded, switching between applications becomes slow. It will take maybe 5 to 10 seconds to bring up the application I alt-tab to call up. As I check the task manager, there was at least 1 GB of Physical Memory available.

I am wondering which component in my rig is causing the slow response and if there is a specific windows setting to solve this issue or I should upgrade certain hardware component?

Thanks,
Jason
Ringas
10-19-2009, 08:53 AM
I sometimes get this as well and I found out that it has to do with multiple OGL apps running at the same time (Max and Rhino in my case). If you're using textures in Maya or Mudbox maybe your gfx card runs out of memory.

My 2 cents,

Tassos Ringas
jasonhuang1115
10-19-2009, 05:02 PM
If the problem is running out of Graphics Card memory, is there a way to monitor how much Graphics Card memory have been consumed?
Ringas
10-20-2009, 08:08 AM
I don't think so. In my case, I have to close both apps and restart the one I want to get responsiveness back.
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