Can anyone please advise what is the best memory setting in the preferences -> mem for my computer.
My Specs are:
ATI FireGL v.5600 (I understand that zbrush doesn’t really use gfx card memory)
8GB Ram
i7 860 2.8Ghz
Wacom intuos 4
Thank you for any advise/suggestions.
On a 64-bit system Compact Mem should usually be set to 1,000 less than your available RAM up to a maximum of 4096.
MaxPolysPerMesh should be set no higher than double the default.
Leave the Undo settings at their default of 4 unless you have a specific, SHORT TERM reason for needing more.
As for HD polygon count, performance goes up as the value is reduced. You should generally just leave it alone.
Hi aurick,
Thank you for your reply and answer.
Very much appreciated.
I have Core i7 with 12gb ram, W7 64bit… I wanna export 14mil polygons mesh as obj. It gives me errors like this:
Sorry, this action could not be completed… …due to insufficient amount of system memory (RAM)
…memory is a result of editing a 3d mesh with higher polygon count than system is capable of handling.
…increase the amount of available memory.
ok… my compact memory is set to 4096 (max). I dont know why i cant go higher, does it tell it cant use more than 4gb?? Thats why I have this error? or the zbrush core is still 32bit…?
I dont believe that I should buy 32gb of ram because of Zbrush… I guess it would give me same error… there is something wrong.
Other thing, I dont want Zbrush to calculate anything, I want him just write on disk big .obj file. Why he needs memory for this action???
any solution? thanks for answer.
What is the actual default setting, so I can set it to double? (I’m installing on a new 8 gig system… BTW activating it on the new system was flawless, and immediate! GREAT improvement over older versions!
Has there been any word on porting to a 64 bit base, so the additional 4 gig can be utilized?
this bugs me too, i have 16GB and zbrush can’t use it and crashes when trying to export large meshes
In my Z the default seems to be 16.5455
I wonder if my system is 64 bit or not… I’m running Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
On windows7 64 bit the best settings I’ve found is base mem is 4096, and max polys is 22 mil. I found the recommendation googling on a training video setting up zb.