Why does my softimage get slow

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rpmaguire
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Why does my softimage get slow

Post by rpmaguire » 16 Mar 2014, 06:17

When working on some scenes Softimage gets progressively slow...
It seems like things just takes a few seconds to open or react.

OPerator stack freeze regularly, twice as much RAM as needed, CPU isn't maxing out..

Is it my video card?
What could this be?

Thanks,
Ryan

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Re: Why does my softimage get slow

Post by angus_davidson » 16 Mar 2014, 09:39

Have you brought up task manager and had a look at what id using your computer resources ? Go to the performance tab and hit resource monitor. Thats should give you a better view of what is using what. Over the years its rarely been Softimage that was the culprit. Its normally some other process / malware / virus thats causing the slowdown.

If however it is an SI Problem have a look at your .scn sizes. Are they much larger then they should be. Our average size is about 50-100MB If its now 2 Gigs big it will take a long time.

Are you connecting to a mapped drive which is having connection issues

Lastly make sure all of your files used in the project are actually in the project directory. (Most of our slowdowns fall into this category as students continually need to be reminded about good file management.)
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luceric
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Re: Why does my softimage get slow

Post by luceric » 16 Mar 2014, 14:37

a network share that is gone or is timing out can have dramatic effect on xsi.

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Re: Why does my softimage get slow

Post by rpmaguire » 16 Mar 2014, 17:40

The scene I was just working on ...

All files are in root directory on the c:/
task manager showed only around 50% cpu used and around 5GB out of 16GB of RAM..

SCN file is 9202KB 80841 polygons..

I was doing a UV layout, The navigation in the viewport was smooth....But the texture editor & RCTOOLs copy & paste UVS was like a 2-3 second delay each time... so annoying.


I have also had this happen with a animation project I was doing...Its wasnt until later in the project When It was more complex.


My video card Is Quadro 1000M.... What effect can this have on perfomance?

I just changed in the nvidia manager from : base profile to 3D APP General... don't know much about this

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Re: Why does my softimage get slow

Post by Bullit » 19 Mar 2014, 03:19

That is a pretty poor graphic card. Any medium common gaming card is better.

I can't say certainly it is that reason obviously.

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