Forum: DAZ|Studio


Subject: Moving to G4 1.25 & Radeon 9200 -- how big a performance boost?

tedbragg opened this issue on Jan 20, 2005 ยท 4 posts


tedbragg posted Thu, 20 January 2005 at 8:44 AM

Currently on a G4 450 with a R7000. D|S is unusable. Poser is barely functional as well. If this new rig proves to be faster, I intend to ditch Poser altogether. How big a jump going from the G4 450/Radeon 7k to a new G4 1.25/R9200 (Mini)?? How fluid are the Mil3.0 figures in D|S? jerky? smooth? I never load more than one at a time to use...


markschum posted Thu, 20 January 2005 at 11:56 AM

Poser does not use the graphics card at all. Speed improvement from a 450 to 1.2 processor should be significant. I went from P3 450 to Athelon 2800+ and Poser is now really fast and I can use multiple figures with no problems. Daz studio uses opengl rendering so the graphics card is relevant. There are a lot of things you can do in Poser (5) that Daz studio does not do.


xantor posted Mon, 24 January 2005 at 12:59 AM

Yes, you would be unwise to ditch poser yet. Remember if you have pro pack or poser 5 then you can make your own figures with them, you can`t do that with daz studio and it looks like that wont be changed in the near future. I still prefer pro pack and poser 5 but I use daz studio too, sometimes.


CrazyDawg posted Fri, 04 February 2005 at 3:24 AM

tedbragg i went from a Athlon 1800xp, 512mb ram with a 64 mb graphics card to a Athlon 3000xp, 512mb ram with a Radeon 9600(128mb ram) graphics card. I soon noticed the speed difference in usin D|S compared to my old computer setup. I don't use D|S for much other than converting Poser/DAZ files over so i can use them in bryce.

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