Nvidia 9600?

[Jonas Norlander]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Knapp<magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Jonas Norlander<jonorland at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Knapp<magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Steve
>>>> I have an AMD 64  x 4 and a 9600 GForce nVidia card that works great.
>>>
>>> Steve can you do a test for me?
>>>
>>> Start  Blender3d, if you don't have it yet.
>>> Sudo aptitude install blender
>>>
>>> Then see how many vertexes you can have in a shape and still have the
>>> the sculpt tool working well with quick updates to the screen.
>>> Because I know this is a new program for you the commands are:
>>> X and then ok to delete the start up cube.
>>> space bar -> add -> UVsphere
>>> tab puts you in edit mode is you are in object mode
>>> then w1 subdivides and each time you get more verts.
>>> You can see how many at the top of the screen ( ve 0, 1000, ed 0, 600,
>>> fa 0, 300). That means vertexes 0 selected 1000 there, then edges,
>>> then faces.
>>>
>>> To get into sculpture mode look at where it says edit mode or object
>>> mode and select sculpt mode. See if you can sculpt. You will find it
>>> works well at the start but then as you keep subdividing you will get
>>> to many verts and the screen update takes like 5 seconds so you can no
>>> longer work the tool well.
>>>
>>
>> Never used blender or any 3D tool I tried to follow your instruktions.
>> At Ve:1015810 | Ed:2064384 | Fa:1048576 | Mem:1146.80 (0.09) it
>> started to take to long times to update. This is on my Asus Nvidia
>> 9600 GT 512 MB Ram
>>
>> / Jonas
>
> Thanks for that! Where the instructions good? What did I miss?
> My system starts to bog down at about 300,000 verts so yours is about
> 3 times faster. What CPU are you running?
>
> I am running a amd x2 64 bit at . . I forget but the slower end. My
> card is the Nvidia 7600 GS
>

I have a AMD Phenom(tm) 9650 Quad-Core Processor and 4 GB Ram.

/ Jonas