Re: Why AC3D?
Well, either one never hurts, but with the card you have you'd probably get more bang out of better video card than RAM. I just checked the reviews, and BlueSmoke say that the GeForce2 MX400, which is only a $50 card, runs Quake III about twice as fast as your card. There's a lot of decent cards out there for under a $100 bucks these days, so I'd consider an upgrade.
If you don't have money for a new card though, you could always consider changing your workflow. Part of what makes subdivisions cool is that you can change the level of subdivision at will. You can work at a lower subdivision level, and only bump up the rez right before you're ready to render. I never keep my models at max subdivisions until I'm ready to export, which keeps things running snappy even when I have a lot of models in the scene.
Last edited by lisa; 8th October 2007 at 08:41 PM.
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