Quote - Hi all,

I am trying to improt poser figures into a pre-made Vue scene in Vue 8. Whilst the figure imports fine - it is really slow when moving or re-sizing the figure!

Can anyone suggest what would be the best settings for vue while I am trying to add figure to the scene? My Pc should be able to cope alright as I have an AMD Duo 220 ghz processor with 4Gig of Ram and a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Graphics card.

I would like to get into Vue more as a hobby - but the constant slowness puts me off using it as much as I would like. Therefore any suggestions for a smoother running would be great.

I was also looking to go from PC to an Apple Desktop - and would be interested to know what anyone thought on this? It would be purely for using Poser/Vue, and is the upgrade from Vue 8 to Vue 9 be worth it?

Thanks all

 

I develop on both PC and Mac platforms so I can help you with anything you need. The first thing I should point out though is your system really is not that good for much detailed work or complex scenes. But, it all depends upon what you plan to do.

My 2008 Mac Pro with 10GB of RAM and an nVidia 8800GT graphics card is now part of my render farm. The main production PC I use is a custom built computer I did using most all the same parts from Maximum PC September 2010 issue. Now, unless you need all that power like me, that may be overkill for what you want. All I was pointing out is that your system really is on the low end though to do much.

Yes, Vue 9 is worth it on several levels, such as having a working Smith Micro SDK for Poser imports. I worked with e-on tech on this for a long time and their latest version appears to have fixed most of the problems I reported. You can find my discussion threads over at e-on for more on this in their "Matainence form" area.

A 64bit OS, great graphics and LOTS of RAM is a must. I develop on both Windows 7 64 and Snow Leopard, which is 64 bit too. Apple Leopard is suppossed to be full 64bit with no option for 32bit like now where you can boot into either one. Until Vue 9, it was REALLY bad on the Mac. Now, this is the first real full version they have done and it works fine for me but there are some problems with it you may not see on Windows 7. I expect it to get better though since this is really their first real Cocoa build.

For now, with what you have, try doing like the other posts say. Also, make sure your video ram setting in prefernces matches what your card can do. Make sure the other settings are set to low for preview and that should help too.

Good luck and happy rendering.

Jeff

Development on: Mac Pro 2008, Duel-Boot OS - Snow Leopard 10.6.6 & Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon , 10GB 800 MHz DDR2 RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT.