slow rendering

[thelonious]

Why is it that if I have a plane with a high mesh count that even if it is not very large it still takes a very long time to maneuver or apply deformations to. I have 600mb of ram allocated to zbrush but it never uses anywhere near this amount. why not. I'm on a g4 500 which is not that fast these days but it is not that slow either surely?

And why does it not use all the ram?

[Muvlo]

About not using RAM... isn't there a slider in the Preferences Palette that controls that? I might be completely wrong, I've never used it...

[thelonious]

yes there is and I have the slider set to the same amount as the ram I have allocated. But the program doesn't seem to use it. It doesn't use the virtual memory. I'm just puzzled why it is so slow sometimes.

[thelonious]