do you think it is too long ??? ha ha lol… image over cg world just two or few years back … Development is rapidly growing brother…
really its a long way off from being mainstream, theres just no need for it either except for maybe some special government/military projects. i’m sure intel/amd etc are developing but its no were near being in your local pc shop
I have only 4GB of RAM, so 64-bit version not bothering me right now.
Anyway, why don’t you try using RamDisk ? It’s very useful if you have “excess” of RAM. Look e.g. here: http://www.pp.tc/tip_4gb_limitBreak.htm
Thank you very much Boruta
stuck here
• [size=+2]Move build-in specified cache directory (Zbrush)
Program use folder inside main folder of application, for example Zbrush.
One very usefull function on NTFS file system - is link one folder to another folder.
Dont know why, but its not integrate in windows…
Use this small program Sysinternals NTFS Junction
can not make this step… can you tell me the command line for
C:\Program Files (x86)\Pixologic\ZBrush 3.5 R3\vmem Z:\TEMP
That’s actually pretty normal, especially if you’re working in the game industry. I think pretty much every character I work on these days rises at least above 20m. It’s also not just the amount of polygons but the speed that you’re able to work with it. Zbrush still seems to struggle with memory as soon as it reaches even 2m. I love the program, but that’s one thing that mudbox still seems to outperform Zbrush in.
I think it should be: junction.exe C:\Program Files (x86)\Pixologic\ZBrush 3.5 R3\vmem Z:\TEMP
junction.exe did not worked for me…
this is what i did
Use “linkd.exe” instead , it’s more simple. “linkd.exe” is a Microsoft recource kit tool and links an empty folder on an NTFS formatted hard disk to something else.
Example :
“Temp” is an emtpy folder on drive C: ( Drive C: is formatted to NTFS ) and you want that all files written to C:\Temp will be mapped to the ramdisk B: , then enter :
>Linkd.exe C: emp Z:
Done !
Linkd.exe “C:\Program Files (x86)\Pixologic\ZBrush 3.5 R3\vmem” Z:
There’s more people out there.
Let’s make this thread sticky ! 
all this process could not speed up zbrush…
one thing to be happy is now… Photoshop cs4 is running super fast…
Hmm, shouldn’t it be faster in undos and redos ? I’m really disappointed, because I was hoping for some improvement with my future(?) 8GB RAM rig. :rolleyes:
I’m glad it’s useful after all.
Pretty bad, 64 bit should of been out half year ago. Instead they decide to jam more tools on top of 32 bit, thus having to rebuild majority of those tool to work correctly with 64 bit later on. So prob take even longer to see stable version of 64 bit zbrush.
it was cool…it works I mean. 
Got qsoft ramdisk working with zb, but finding it to have very limited use when working with high poly models, Since the more ram has to allocated all time to ram drive it becomes very useless app to improve zbrush performance. Just eats your memory.
Unless im using it wrong ??
Looks like version 4 is still 32 bit. I just installed it and the installation is in the Program Files (x86) folder.
Machines with 24 gigs of DDR3 ram. My god man! My scratch built machine is nearing it’s 3 year mark, and I’ve had it running with 8 gigs of DDR2 since day one, and it was a pretty big deal to have 8 gigs back then.
I’ll have to ditch everything minus the case and power supply to jump onto the the 24 gig DDR3 revolution.
Would love to hear the cost of some of your builds. I’m thinking a new mobo will cost around 300, a new icore 7 another 300, the ram? whats a good ram kit.
Wow things move pretty fast, if you dont stop and look around once and while, you miss it… 8 gigs is standard now, pluck me running.
Just wanted to add when I’m working on models with 16 million polys or more- The save files are in the triple MB digits. Would more ram make the HD write times safer/quicker? If, and when a 64 bit version exists?
30mil is not that uncommon these days… especially when you consider polypainting needs extremely dense meshes to be of any use. the character i’m working on right now is 35mil with 38 subtools. And that’s with a key prop in a totally separate scene. If my goal were to pose the character with the prop within zbrush I’d easily have a ZTL that breached the 45mil mark.
what about 64 bit then?