Hello, I’m upgrading my system, and wondering which flavor of 64bit Vista will Zbrush be most stable on? Any tips on making the right choice would be great.
Thanks:)
I have Vista Home (64 bit), and it is fine here.
Have Home Premium, was used to xp, took a little adjusting, now
all the kids and me are playing nice together:D
Note: getting 8gb ram convinced me.
I had Vista Home Premium. Worked great. Just make sure you run it as an administrator permanently. Now im running Vista Ultimate. Its a beautiful thang!
Vista Ultimate 64-bit and Vista Business 64-bit.
Ultimate here.
Don’t let the 64-bit RAM capability (can use up to 128 GB of RAM) influence you…the current versions of ZB only use 2 GB RAM max and another 2 goes for Vista OS for a total of 4 being used. You can have 8 GB of RAM in your Vista 64 but all 6GB after the OS isn’t getting used by ZB, yet. Maybe in the future versions of ZB.
Do you have evidence of this? Zbrush is “supposed” to use 4GB of RAM on a 64-bit OS. This way if you have 8GBs of RAM (and I do) you can run Zbrush and have Maya and Photoshop open as well and still allow enough RAM for Vista (and I do).
I have run into a few mem sharing issues with Maya and Zbrush but the problem looks to be Maya.
If you’re running Zbrush on a 32-bit OS you shouldn’t be able to allocate more than 2GBs of RAM to it or any app.
Enough tech-talk, I’m getting a headache.
This is incorrect. On a 32-bit OS, ZBrush can use no more than 2 GB of RAM – but that’s because that’s all the OS will give to ZBrush. On a 64-bit OS, ZBrush can use up to 4 GB of RAM. Any extra beyond that will go to the OS itself (and Vista does need a fair amount of RAM) and any other apps you might have running.
Oh thats good news aurick, 8GB Here i come.
Thank you for the correction Aurick. I was basing my comments on other comments i ahve read here at ZBC. Glad to hear that my 8GB of RAM is not going to waste. Keep up the great work.
/me crawls back into his hole
Don’t know if this will help anyone.
But.
I have a HP Pavilion Elite m92426f Pc.
It has 8gb ram, Windows Vista Home Premium, Intel Core 2 Quad Processor
Q6600. Graphics card is ati radeon HD 3650.
At the moment this is how it was purchased and nothing has been added.
Now.
If anyone would like, we can take a simple ztool as a starting point.
You tell me what memory setting to punch in ( screen print it)and I will take that tool
(plane would work) and crank it as high as would be practical to work with
Will then make minor adjustments to see if it crashes and you have
a starting point to discuss.