Blender display is slow on my desktop 3Ghz .

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I like blender because it’s reactive and very fast …
Working with since v 1.7, it always displayed well .
But on my new desktop (p4 3Ghz HT, radeon 8500 64megs) the display is awfully slow. Like with max and a dozen of modifiers …
2 sec waiting when selcting a mesh or lamp, when zooming I become crazy, the panels are updating selections in 4 seconds etc …
The same files are displaying well on my laptop as usual !

When rendering it’s fast, the use of 1 thread or two works fine, so …

The other softs using open gl seem to work as usual, only blender behave slowly .

Is it XP pro, the graphic driver, or the hardware …

If anybody can help, wellcome .

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I’m guessing it’s the graphic drivers. Do you have the latest version?

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Or you have an ati card and have just noticed that blender becomes slower and slower with use

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I never install the latest versions of ati drivers … Had a lot of problems reverting to old ones when something was bugging in the display, as usual with ati .
But i will try to see if the problem is that . But since I never had problems with the graphic driver, using blender, before I changed the motherboard and cpu . And that max, AE etc … works fine, i thought it could be something wrong with XPpro sp2 or something like that !

Thanks

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Ach ! It’s seem to be slower and slower with use …
It’s strange, I never seen this before !

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i have an ati 9200 and blender ran really slow until i updated my graphic card drivers to the latest one and now it runs perfect and i dont have the slowdown issue

on xp pro sp2

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Could it possibly be the fact that you have an un-godly low amount of memory, perhaps?

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it was the driver …

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I would attribute that to the drivers, the video card spec itself, and the lack of video RAM.

Oh, seems you found the problem. nvm. Although what I mentioned above should still speed it up (if they are remedied).