Help me get the most out of my new rig for Zbrush 3.1

Cadmium77 · July 4, 2019, 7:23pm

I bought two Hitatchi SATA drives, 500 mb ea. a month ago so I’ll have close to 2 terabytes of HD by transfering what I’ve already got

And I’ll be buying another 4 gigs or RAM for a total of 8 gigs to start…

So $3400 Canadian = US more or less a penny and $500 for that monitor

A good value since all the places that were offering high end graphics stations in this area were a LOT more…

It’s a server board…that’s why it holds up to 128 gig of RAM. That was what closed the deal for me; the top graphics rigs were offereing 64 gig maximum mobos at best…

Fine. It works well. But I’m only going up to 8.3 million polygons. Now my Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop dual core with 4 gigs of RAM gives me about 2.2 million polygons fluidly.

I figure I should be getting a LOT more polygons out of this rig. at 8.3 million it’s not even working that hard. Advice here?

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aurick · July 3, 2019, 5:27pm

You’re not going to see a significant difference between 4GB and 8 GB of RAM because the most that ZBrush can currently use is 4 GB. Any extra RAM then just goes to background processes and the OS.

With as much RAM as you have you can set Preferences>Mem>Compact Mem to 4096. This allows ZBrush to use the maximum amount of RAM that it can. You should easily be able to work with 12 million poly meshes.

Cadmium77 · July 3, 2019, 5:28pm

Thank you for the advice Aurick…