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irender nxt speed issue
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Hi,   I have recently upgraded a Dell Vostro pc and ever since irendernxt runs really slow. I know this will be quite an open ended question but am looking for some suggestions and pointers more than…Continue

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Andy Atthowe replied to Andy Atthowe's discussion 'irender nxt speed issue'
No one else out there with any suggestions at all....?
Feb 1
Andy Atthowe replied to Andy Atthowe's discussion 'irender nxt speed issue'
Plenty of disk space etc, you got me thinking I hadnt looked at what was happening cpu wise in taskmanager. It is interesting sketchup never uses more than 25% of the cpu and the ram always has at least 4gb free even with sketchup and irender…
Jan 24
Mike Halls replied to Andy Atthowe's discussion 'irender nxt speed issue'
Hi Andy As my machine is an i5 and yours an i7 I was expecting yours to be faster ! Can't see anti virus having an impact (I dont use any !) Mine is a very 'clean' machine with a recent OS installation (5 months) so the disk hasnt had…
Jan 23
Andy Atthowe replied to Andy Atthowe's discussion 'irender nxt speed issue'
Hi Mike, rendered the file on 40 passes with the sketchup pixel size and it took 10minutes 26 secs which whilst not horific still slower than your machine. Does antivirus software or something like that have an impact? The customer is only running…
Jan 23
Mike Halls replied to Andy Atthowe's discussion 'irender nxt speed issue'
Hi Andy Attached is the file in version 7 Re the cores, probably something to do with 'virtual cores' and 'physical cores' I'm not very well up on the inner workings of processors. Sufice to say you won't get much…
Jan 22
Andy Atthowe replied to Andy Atthowe's discussion 'irender nxt speed issue'
Thanks for the file Mike and sorry for the delayed reply the customer has been really busy and I've just been given access to logon and try rendering it. Unfortantely I can't open the file as it was created in sketchup version 8 and we…
Jan 22
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Hi Andy I have e-mailed the sketchup file we discussed (zipped) Be interested how you get on IrenderNXT is all about processor performance (and RAM to some extent) The graphics card has no bearing on render speeds. Just a thought but are you…
Jan 17
Andy Atthowe replied to Andy Atthowe's discussion 'irender nxt speed issue'
Thanks Mike, it would be interesting to see how long that file takes to render I will pm you
Jan 17
Mike Halls replied to Andy Atthowe's discussion 'irender nxt speed issue'
Hi Andy While you are waiting for a technical response from Al or Rich I thought I would post a comment. With the spec of your machine your renders should fly ! Like you I use Windows 7 64bit. My Acer  machine has an Intel Core i5 (quad core)…
Jan 17

irender nxt speed issue

Hi,   I have recently upgraded a Dell Vostro pc and ever since irendernxt runs really slow. I know this will be quite an open ended question but am looking for some suggestions and pointers more than anything to start with. So the machine spec is: Dell Vostro 430Intel Core i7 2.8GHz8GB DDR 3 RAM (Was 4GB on windows xp)512MB Nvidia Gfx Card500GB SATA Hard DriveWindows 7 Pro 64Bit SP1 It was originally running windows xp pro sp3, and ran irender nxt fine (you could set it rendering a file with…See More
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At 10:09am on January 17, 2012, Mike HallsMike Halls said…

Hi Andy

I have e-mailed the sketchup file we discussed (zipped)

Be interested how you get on

IrenderNXT is all about processor performance (and RAM to some extent) The graphics card has no bearing on render speeds.

Just a thought but are you rendering with all your cores ?

If you go to NXT setup options (little yellow clipboard)

Then click 'More' you will see you have a choice of how many cores to use - make sure its set to all of them (or all but one if you want to do something processor intensive whilst the render is taking place in the background)

I think NXT defaults to using all cores but its worth checking.

Regards and good luck

Mike (Mesh-3D)

 
 
 

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