Richmathews opened this issue on May 15, 2012 · 17 posts
cyberknight1133 posted Tue, 15 May 2012 at 1:10 PM
Quote - Vue only cares about your video card and its driver. Your computer needs to be built around it. People here have spent thousands on a new computer (fast CPU, lots of cores, lots of RAM, the largest hard drive(s)) and Vue wouldn't run until they installed a video card that it liked.
I've been running Vue 10 Inifinite just fine on my Penitum 4 (single core) 2GB RAM WinXP32 system. And Vue loves my video card.
Ahhh. That's because you're running 32 bit. The maximum amount any 32 bit application can adress is 2 gigs. I stopped using 32 bit Vue around 8 or so. I use a crapload of Poser imports in most of my renders and had major problems after the first update. I bought Win7 64 bit, went from 4 to 8 gigs of RAM and everything was hunky dory. 16 gigs and it was smooth as pie (mostly!)
As far as the VGA goes, that mostly affects the GUI, not the actual rendering.
Also:
As far as RAM compatibility goes, if you know the brand/ model/ chipset of your MB, you can go to either the chipset/mb manufacturer website and find a list of acceptible RAM. That being said, I've built 6 computers for myself and 4 computers for my son over the past 13 years or so and only had RAM compatibilty problems once, and that was with a NVidia Nforce 2 chipset waaaay back when dual channel RAM first came out.
As far as PSUs go, any PC's I've looked at that were built by generic manufacturers (Dell, HP, etc.) had power supplies that barely met the specs required with the original parts. Upgrade a video card and you've pushed your 12V rail to the max. Personally, I wouldn't go below a 650W for a workstation-type computer. In fact, mine has had a 1000w for the last 8 years or so.
If you're using a 64bit system, 2 slots is limiting your upgradability, unless you want to go with 2 giant sticks. Most standard MB's come with 4 slots if it's dual channel, 6 if it's triple channel.
Rich, if you have the ability to build your own, I strongly recommend it. You have a lot more control over the quality of the components. If not, try Newegg, or Cyberpower.