We have 2 seats of Ironcad on different spec. computers. For a test, we dragged 2 blocks into the scene as seperate parts. We then Triballed them to copy 30 times at a distance of 100mm.
System 1 took ~6 sec., system 2 took ~28 seconds. We tried a few other things & the results were of a similar nature.
We were advised by our Var that hard disk access is very important. As seen below, really only the ram & processesor vary.
Any ideas on the reason behind the huge differences?
System 1: Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz; Asus P4S8X-X (8 x AGP) mother board; Asus V9180 Geoforce 4MX 440 (with 8 x AGP) graphic card; 512 MB DDR PC 2700 ram; 80GB 7200 RPM HDD.
System 2: Intel Pentium 4 1.6GHz; Gigabyte GA-8IRX ATX (4 x AGP) mother board; Jaton 3DForce2 MX200 64MB (4 x AGP) graphic card; 512 MB DDR PC 2100 ram; IBM Deskstar 60GXP 7200 RPM HDD.
Both systems run XP PRO.
Regards,
David J
