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#1

Zbrush is only soft I have a special script on my desktop for. " Kill Zbrush" process terminator. And even with that script it’s sometime a problem.

Once I am starting to work on something around 4-5 mil on my i7 3770k Zbrush is getting very hang prone. A single incautious doing, an extra subdivision, undo step, projection of too heavy mesh or sometimes just n in the middle of random sculpting and Zbrush goes gray , “process is not responding” and often nothing is working at the whole pc.

Then I could only pray it would go normal in 3-10 minutes. Sometimes it doesn’t or takes so long that the best I can do is starting that " kill" script, reboot , and start again from what I saved last time.

So in general I have to be very cautious about what I am doing and hold by breath every time I am doing something. Any other software works just fine.

I wonder is it a normal Zbrush behavior and I just need to adjust my work technique?

#2

How much RAM do you have? I’m only running an I5 with 8 Gb. It will go hazy from time to time. Work carefully and deliberately :wink:

#3

I have 8 gb. I believe Zbrush doesn’t use anything beyond 4.

It’s not that I can’t work at all but definitely I feel most uncomfortable working in Zbrush.

It’s a kind of love and hate feeling. I love Zbrush unique features and my workflow based a lot on Zbrush but at the same time it’s a soft of sort people around me may hear a kind of very bad and loud swearing suddenly.

Curious if it’s hardware dependent. Does it work better on mac? Or maybe need speedier hard drive or something? Xeon? special ram chips?

#4

There is an option in ZBrush preferences to optimize performance. I can’t remember the exact setting and I’m not at home to check. Someone else will know for sure.

#5

I believe I have tried everything in the preferences already. My only guess Zbriush doesn’t like my hardware somehow. It worked no better on my old pc although. But I always built pc from cheap components . Maybe it something with it and better motherboard chip set or something would improve things. But still no other soft is so hang prone.