Forum: Carrara


Subject: OpenGL and Software and new Graphics cards?

AndyCLon opened this issue on Nov 16, 2007 · 14 posts


toffy posted Thu, 29 November 2007 at 5:07 PM

Quote - > Quote - I got a nvidia geforce 6600 videocard 256mb and my carrara works fine and smooth for me.

Your video card is not used during rendering so it doesn't matter what card you have.

Quote - i got 1gb ram DDR1 dual channel and everything works fin

How fast is your CPU because this is what's doing the rendering.

Quote - But when i go to render a picture or a movie, it does it slow, i mean like 1 day for a video of 25 sec. Pictures renders fine. but the videos renders slow. what can be the problem then???????

If by 1 day you really mean 24 hrs, then you are rendering about 1 second of video per hour. If your video is set to 30 frames per second you are rendering at a speed of 2 minutes per frame. That's not too bad depending on how complex the image is.

There are only two ways to speed up rendering. 1) Reduce Complexity. 2) Faster/More CPU

~jr

 

You mean by upgrade to a big CPU? and what about ram? Isn't the ram doing something with the rendering, speed it up? if  I upgrade my ram,does it go faster?