cyberscape opened this issue on Jan 14, 2005 ยท 6 posts
cyberscape posted Fri, 14 January 2005 at 2:22 PM
Happy Day!! I just upgraded my RAM from 256mb to 1gb. A quick test of Poser5's performance was staggering! V3 loaded up in less than 10 seconds - WOW! The thing I can't recall is how much do I set virtual memory for? Here's the layout: 2ghz proc 1gb RAM ATI Raedon 8500 128mb video card 4 harddrives - one for WinXP, one for P5, one for P4, and one for other crap Now, what VM settings would be best for the first three harddrives? For that matter, does the WinXp drive need to even be adjusted since there are no Poser files on it(other than registry stuff)? Thanks ahead of time for any help here! CyberscapE
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AMD FX-9590 4.7ghz 8-core, 32gb of RAM, Win7 64bit, nVidia GeForce GTX 760
PoserPro2012, Photoshop CS4 and Magix Music Maker
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...and when the day is dawning...I have to say goodbye...a last look back into...your broken eyes.
operaguy posted Fri, 14 January 2005 at 2:52 PM
I am going the other direction, trying to figure out how to get poser to STOP using the hard drive as memory (swap) and instead load more into physical RAM. I didn't know you could set virtual memory for drives?? ::::: Opera :::::
Robo2010 posted Fri, 14 January 2005 at 4:08 PM
What size HD's?
I just installed a 160GB, and P5 performs faster than it did with my other 80GB. Both 7200Rpm's
Now my 80GB HD is filling up with P5 goodies (Files). Now to organize.
Message edited on: 01/14/2005 16:10
layingback posted Sat, 15 January 2005 at 12:41 AM
There are various views on this, but I keep my VM at 960MB - for Windows 2K. Rationale is that no Windows (32bit) application can access more than 2GB - it's a Windows restriction. But Poser 5 seems to try to go beyond that 2GB limit at times resulting in instability (understatement ;-). So 1GB + 960MB keeps it "honest". (Why 960MB not 1GB? That happened to be the advised limit for another application on my system, so I stuck with it.)
thefixer posted Sat, 15 January 2005 at 3:41 AM
VM is what your computer uses from the hard drive as if it were RAM. If you have 1Gig of system RAM then you should be safe enough to let XP handle VM for you. Not always the case though! I run 512 Meg of system RAM and XP wasn't controlling my VM well enough so I was getting the dreaded "VM is not enough, system is blah, blah, blah" and the Poser hangs! I upped my VM setting manually to 3Gig after a similar thread to this one and it was suggested by SVDL. That worked really well and I don't have problems now. Remember VM is using space off your hard drive so you need to have that 3Gig plus a bit more that you can actually spare. Cheers!
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cyberscape posted Sat, 15 January 2005 at 9:40 AM
Thanks for the replies! All of the HD's are 7200rpm. The WinXP is 60g, the Poser5 is 120g and the Poser4 is 60g. For now, I guess I'll let XP handle the VM and see how that works. Thanks again!
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AMD FX-9590 4.7ghz 8-core, 32gb of RAM, Win7 64bit, nVidia GeForce GTX 760
PoserPro2012, Photoshop CS4 and Magix Music Maker
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...and when the day is dawning...I have to say goodbye...a last look back into...your broken eyes.