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Hi, can anyone tell me how to get faster rendering times? I am currently still working with Revit 2009, but I also have 2010 and 2011. My computer is an HP with an i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80Ghz, 8 GB RAM, a NDIDIA GeForce GT 230 graphics card, 920 GB total hard disk. I am running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit system. My computer is expandable to 16 GB of RAM. I have heard that I should go with more RAM, or would a different vid card be better? I don't want to go out and buy a new computer, because this one is only a few months old. I just want to upgrade it. I have attached the details of my computer if it would be any help answering my questions. Any help from the Revit Guru's would be very much appreciated. Thank you all.
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Keith, Your hardware is fine, the rendering is processor based unless you start using 3ds Max..... There are many functions you can do to speed times up: section boxes, less glossy materials, light groups, PNG instead of JPG material maps. I am pretty sure I wrote a thread on all the steps you can take.
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Thanks Alabaster. I appreciate your help.
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Hello, I would like to ask little bit offtopic / we are considerling buying computer with NVIDIA GeForce CUDA GT230 1.5GB PCIe x16 Graphics Card (it is part of HP Elite 7100 MT computer our IT is offering us for good price), as this card is not listed in supported hardware, I would like to ask, if you have some experience with this card running Revit 2011 and Autocad 2011 / is this card OK? Thanks a lot for any feedback! Best regards Frantisek Stafek...
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Stafek, thats not a very highpower card from what i know, what type/size projects do you usually work on? I am not saying that is not a good card, but there is room for improvement
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Hello, We've done so far two big projects in Revit. One was a 300 appartments residential house ended in early stage with 30MBs central file, other was 150 appartments house, with complex geometry, ended with 90MB central file in sort of building permit stage (it serverd for coordinatiton during site construction, final working drawings were done by other company) Question is if the graphics card has some impact on speed in Revit and in which areas. Rendering? Or basic display? What I've understood was, that it is not necessary to have best "gaming" / animation / modelling card, but important is enough memory (which this card has) and compatibility issues (which we don't know). But maybe that I'm completely wrong on this... Do you have some suggestion? Should we buy this computer, throw away the card and buy additional HP NVIDIA GRAPHICS PLUS QUADRO 600? This one has 1GB. But it seemed to me as overkill... Thanks for any hint... Frantisek Stafek.
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One more thing... usually we have two monitors setup, so it is important for the card to support it... Regards Frantisek Stafek...
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I've always used whatever the current low end ati firegl/firepro card is. (currently v3750) I don't think that memory size is going to do anything for you. I could be wrong but i've never had any issues. Rock solid drivers and compatability are key.
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