Worth getting AC3D?

[Andy]

That sounds very slow. My old laptop handles it fine. Ensure your graphics drivers are up-to-date.



There's a lot you can do, of course the render speed depends on your graphics card and processor. Depending on your graphics card, you may find it faster if you switch off textures (press 't'). Also, if you press the eye icon (top right of each view window), that will switch off all the editing lines, saving quite a bit of render time.



You can also switch 2D/3D views to interactive-wireframe (main menus) which will switch to wireframe when manipulating.


Also, you can hide or lock different parts of a large scene (bottom right expanding section of left control panel). This is very handy when "walking" around a large scene (i.e. walk-mode in a 3D view) e.g. a large airport model.



The biggest speed saving is probably to to switch to a single view (press space to max/min current). that saves rendering 4 views at once.

[Spkier]

Originally Posted by Andy

That sounds very slow. My old laptop handles it fine. Ensure your graphics drivers are up-to-date.



There's a lot you can do, of course the render speed depends on your graphics card and processor. Depending on your graphics card, you may find it faster if you switch off textures (press 't'). Also, if you press the eye icon (top right of each view window), that will switch off all the editing lines, saving quite a bit of render time.



You can also switch 2D/3D views to interactive-wireframe (main menus) which will switch to wireframe when manipulating.


Also, you can hide or lock different parts of a large scene (bottom right expanding section of left control panel). This is very handy when "walking" around a large scene (i.e. walk-mode in a 3D view) e.g. a large airport model.



The biggest speed saving is probably to to switch to a single view (press space to max/min current). that saves rendering 4 views at once.

Did all that yet it laggs alot and i always use 1 view same as i did in 3dsmax.
GPU is a 1050TI and cpu is amd athlehon 860k and both 3dsmax and blender renders at over 300 fps with the same settings and same mesh while AC3D renders at 2fps. GPU is up to date but will check agen and try and downgrade to lower version and see if there is any mess with ac3d and latest.
Tried with my old laptop wich only has a buitl inn gpu but it lagged even more so it crashed.
In viewport at 35K vertitices the viewport starts to lagg alot this is not good at all. and this is not render but viewport as a single viewport

[Andy]

I think I have the 1050 (non ti) card on my main PC and that's very smooth/fast with the large Normandy model.


AC3D may not be using your graphics card - check the console when it starts. You can make it stay open with File->Settings->Advanced-show-windows-console.


Let us know what you find.

[Spkier]

Originally Posted by Andy

I think I have the 1050 (non ti) card on my main PC and that's very smooth/fast with the large Normandy model.


AC3D may not be using your graphics card - check the console when it starts. You can make it stay open with File->Settings->Advanced-show-windows-console.


Let us know what you find.

I looked there and it says it is using my GPU and it seems it starts to slow down at around 45k verticies in viewport

[Spkier]

Here is what the console says with a model with 65K verts i made in blender

[Andy]

That looks correct, and shows that AC3D is picking up the correct OpenGL.


Sorry I don't know why you would be getting such slow frame rates.

[Spkier]

Originally Posted by Andy

That looks correct, and shows that AC3D is picking up the correct OpenGL.


Sorry I don't know why you would be getting such slow frame rates.

Tried with 5 diffrent computers both low end and high end and yet it seems to slow down and sometimes it crashes/freezes when opening scenes beacuse of the high amount of verts, any possible way to get a lower version maybe it's the version nummber that is conflicting?
i don't wanna buy a software that laggs this mutch.