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ZBrush performance problem on 30 inch screen

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#1

Yesterday arrived my new 30" monitor, I bought for CG. First I have started 3DSMax to see how everything looks. No problems there, quality and performance are fantastic. Next I have turned on ZBrush and rescaled Document size to fit the maximum available area which was 2170x1474, everything looked great, then I opened every available panel and shelve and rescaled Document size again to about 1900x1400. Put on the screen a Head model and all was good up until I zoomed in.

When model was covering about half of the available document space performance was great, but the more I zoomed in the worse was the performance and it wasn't dependant of the mesh density at all, I have tried also on 1 polygon model just to see the same thing happening. My spec is Intel Core 2 Duo 3.16 OCZ 4GB 1333MHz ReaperX Radeon 4870x2 2GB I have read somewhere on the net that ZB is rendering in software and not using any opengl/directx, if this is true, to improve my performance I would need better CPU. Can anyone confirm that this is the case. Or there is some other way to tune up ZB to boost the performance??
#2

RAM and CPU are what you need. Or a smaller document size. I have a 30in and have my document set at 2560x1440 (double 720) and that works fine for me, but I also have 24gb of ram and dual quads.

#3

Thanks Yeti, I suspected that its gonna be CPU and ram. Anoying thing about PC is every time I change one thing its like a chain reaction and I end up rebuilding most of the rig…