Does anyone know if the performance of Sculptris Pro can be improved by upgrading the video card? For example, once I reach 1 million polys, the brush strokes slow down a lot.
If I upgrade my gtx 970 to rtx 3070, would there be a noticeable improvement?
Any upgraders out there that have that answer?
Thanks!
Pretty sure the only two features in Zbrush that require a video card are Polygroupit and BevelPro. Everything else is CPU based, including Sculptris Pro.
You can improve possibly performance with the usual hardware upgrades of more RAM and faster CPU with more threads.
Otherwise hide some of the geo you don’t need to see. Sculptris Pro respects visibility.
Hi @louvfx ,
As @tobor8man says, ZBrush is almost entirely CPU-based. In most scenarios, the GPU is not a significant contributor to performance.
A beefier CPU can help here, but you’re still going to encounter performance walls. Sculptris creates new geometry in real time with the stroke, and the more geometry you ask it to create, the greater the performance burden.
It’s important to remember that the tools in ZBrush that only work at a single level of resolution with no subdivision levels are generally intended for the shaping of form, up to about a medium level of detail. If you’re encountering significant performance wall here, it’s likely you’re trying to work beyond the intended effective range of these tools. After a certain point it is expected that the artist will need to transition to a multi-resolution mesh in order to sculpt fine detail. A mesh in this form will be required to hit ZBrush’s full detail potential, as well as for best results when painting, posing, UV unwrapping, texture creation and export.
Good luck!
Hey guys,
Crap, I just ordered the 3080 OC 12gb.Was hoping that my old 970 card was the reason and would get boost in performance.
The PC has an Intel 18 core / 128 ram , so the card was the only old component. Also I have run into “out of memory” issues when using VRAY or Keyshot in the past. When I checked my system memory, it was only 40% used up, so I assumed it was the Vram that gets low from time to time.
So basically I just pissed away 1400 buck for nothing. 
Oh well, Hard come, easy go.