Hi I was just wanting to know if there was any options I could change in blender that would speed it up at all?
Because my computer’s quite old and has only a 1ghz cpu and 256mb ram and sometimes working in blender can be almost impossible at times and keeps me from turning out anything really professional looking. For instance myy project “Untainted” that I posted here took me hours to move everything around right.
I know the best thing would be just to buy a new computer, but until I have the money I need an alternative. I don’t care about render times just the working space. Is there anything I can turn off without messing up the work area?
Mine was the same, it took 5 minutes to save. But once I got a graphics card, it flew. PCI Express is great for my HP. Graphic cards also help pictures and perfromance. Win Win.
If you’re working in solid mode you could see if using only one opengl light helps at all, though you may have to futz with the coordinates to make it visually usable.
try using the layers to break up your screen, so you can turn things off and on. Also use bounding box view if your moving stuff and turn the wire on to fine tune them. changing the screen res wont help you alot. also shut off anything thats running in the background, like msn/icq/gaim whatever. they eat more ram then you think.
also, blender seems to run much faster on my linux box. if your using windows, consider setting a dual boot with Ubuntu just for blendering. this will ensure your only running things to do with the system. and not all the extra crap windows runs in the background. XP needs atleast 128mb to get off the ground smoothly, so your not ledt with a lot after that. consider more ram, its the best thing you can do.
Im on a fairly basic computer and blender is a fox on it, especially on Ubuntu. Mine is 2ghz pentium 4 (not even HT) with 512mb of ram and a basic £30 ATI Radeon 9250.
are you shure you have a opengl grafiphicscard?
I had a couple of years agon on Linux no hardware acceleration and everything was sooooo slooooooooowowwwww.
linux is very fast, and has proper drivers now for graphics cards. ATI linux drivers are better then NVIDIAs efforts, interms of being able to set things. Both will let you use the cards tho, and its fast. You can even setup dual screens now.
if you get ubuntu and install it, set your net up if you have to do, and download and run “Automatix” - this will setup all the basic stuff you install on a fresh system like media players, codecs, antivirus, firfox + flash and Java etc etc. lots of stuff and u can choose what it installs for you. Its the easiest way to get you graphics drivers installed.