more POWER!!!
 

i was just wondering if there's any way to devote more cpu power or RAM to lightwave. I don't really have much running in my background etc. except for Norton Anti-virus & Firewall. I feel that LW doesn't use much of the stuff that i have on my computer. I seems choppy for most of my models and it's very annoying! I have a little over 1 gig of memory with and AMD ath. 128 mb videocard, but still...

Any suggestions?

Well the Ram is fine. But what Ghz is your CPU? and is it the barton core AMD? I had 1 gig of ram with an AMD 2800 Barton
with an Nvidia 128mb video card. And it worked out fine with Lightwave. But when I switched over to Intel 2.8GHz I noticed a big increase in speed over the AMD. Keep in mind only in my 3D Apps though. I'm not to sure about the newer 64bit AMDs though.. I still would stick with Intel when it comes to 3D Modeling.

I uses me AMD system for all my gaming now. and Intel for my 3D and Graphic stuff.


Sir_Pro_View
Greg

Here's some of the main specs.:

AMD Athlon XP 2800+ i think its 2.0 ghz...
1024 DDR SDRAM
NVida 128 videocard

It's all fine, but i also have LAN for 4 computers in my house, and this one is the hub or main computer. maybe that somehow slows it down... anything could be possible...:rolleyes:

Zeeman,
If you think something is wrong with your system take a test and compare. In some tasks, like textures AMD seems better. I suppose Intel is better when HT procs are used and AMD XPs are equal to non HT Intels, also look at the price tags when you compare.

I haven't run this yet but probably will--->
http://www.blanos.com/benchmark/index.html
Scenes are at ProgramFiles\LW \Content\Classic Content\Benchmark\

Post some your result if you want and I will post mine with XP 2500 plus at 1833Mhz *if I remember default speed right.

Bear in mind also that Lightwave is specifically optimised for Intel CPUs. As far as I know there aren't any optimisations coded in for running under an AMD architecture, so your performance will always be better running a Pentium CPU