BTW, I have an i7 2600K, which is a few generations old, but should still be adequate I would think...:crazy:

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also, contemplating on the xmp settings, you have to consider that the new systems *2013, are now working with energy savings ...this is a 2 way street since now the system optimizes itself on the fly - on a fixed setting, you get the most consistent stable setting for your system.....on an energy savings setting, there's room to overclock some without staying up there so your system can run at peak performance for a few minutes - using the xmp setting really opens up your ram / gpu and cpu all at the same time...so it's not so farfetched to 'me' - from watching these stats go from pc jr to omg in nano-seconds lol. It really depends on your motherboard's ability to tweak all these units quickly I'm guessing....it's why I made such a big deal about my mobo / cpu / and power supply - this system is off the charts - the cpu is only supposed to hit 3.9 but my mobo does such a great job at management it hits 4.0 - I'm pretty sure I could get her to 4.5 but no need on stressing it. I caught her yesterday running at 60c temp when I had a modeling software up along with iclone ....which is pretty hot - so even though I'm not overclocking, I have to keep a watch because she' is pushing herself!!


ps - based on what I've seen in gaming forums, you can get your cpu to about 4-4.2 - you just need a good cooling system.


I should also mention that even though I have a very nice cooling set up on case and cpu, I still put my fan facing the case and it makes a big difference ....I drop about 5c consistently from doing this. Bigger fans don't mean better cooling, they do this for silence so the fans can spin slower - would be nice if they could spin faster but they dont

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I agree CPU has a lot to do with Iclone performance, but when different graphic cards affect CPU performance and Iclone perfromance, then there are more things to think about.

Plus, Iclone is just one tool. Having a graphics card that works with all of your pipeline is the key.

Alienware 15, i7 4710hq, GTX 970m, 16gb ram, 4k display, 1.5TB SSD raid.

When I checked my BIOS it turned out that the setting for memory was "Manual" (not the default "Auto"), so I probably changed the settings a while ago, as if I knew what I was doing... :crazy:

So I changed the setting to "XPM" to have a recommended baseline. This has improved the behavior of iClone.

Before, I had a high CPU usage (although not 100%) even with an empty project; now the CPU usage depends on the kind of project. High poly/texture projects still give a high CPU reading (around 25 to 30%, whereas before I had 50% or more), but for simpler projects CPU usage is low, as expected.

I'm also using the latest nVidia driver, although that didn't seem to do much before I changed my BIOS memory setting. As the GPU uses some system memory as "overflow" I can see why an optimal setting is helpful.

I looked at some benchmarks with my CPU (the 2600K is still quite popular) and various cards, and moving to a 780 would make quite a difference. One reason may also be that these cards come with 3GB of memory instead of the 1.5GB of my card. For the moment, though, I will try to optimize what I have.

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http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/sandy-bridge-overclocking-efficiency,2850-6.html

not seeing what they used for cooling though, if they used liquid hydrogen, then it's not practical / real world.

from what I've read, 61c should be your cap - after that you are wearing down the life of your system - 75c absolute max before you start to see smoke come out of your pc.

so whatever you can get at 61c should be your limit for practical real world usage, and that depends on your heatsink/cpu cooler.

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Good nuggets of information there, I will be checking my bios.

Alienware 15, i7 4710hq, GTX 970m, 16gb ram, 4k display, 1.5TB SSD raid.

With iClone 5.5 I am having serious problems with Nvidia CPU usage.
Specs :
Nvidia GeForce 8500 GT/PCIe/SSE2
MS XP professional SP3 - Intel Core2 Duo CPU - E4600 @ 2.40GHz - 2.41 GHz, 2.00 GB of RAM

Just booting up my PC I have the following



The file I'm currently working on does not load the terrain anymore and I have set everything to wireframe in the hope of speeding things up

file size :



just launching this file and doing nothing with it yet



Another file of similar size - which I finished without any problems in v5.4 - now has a CPU usage which would not enable me anymore to work on it in v5.5. Also the terrain does not load anymore





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Unless the team at RL can make a patch to fix this CPU problem rather soon, I will reinstall v5.4.

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you are on a double choke point with both cpu and gpu - I can't see a patch being written for that because the shadows in iclone got better more accurate, the physics is calculating real time, along with all the compression going on for loading and rendering - those would have to be degraded to meet your specs.

you may consider a different workflow technique as a work around to finish your scenes.

What you can do is empty your scene and render it in layers, then overlay them in a video editor. This will help ease the stress on your computer with less of a load...

like render one scene on green screen with terrain, then render your next scene with just trees, then another with just avatars ...etc ...then chroma key them in your video editor.
Not the fastest route, but better than no choice. Ironically enough, that's the proper way to do it ...with even more layers than that for pro hollywood productions. heh! thats why it takes them so long to make a movie ...their details are excruciating! But it gives you more power to create more depth with video effects too...like making characters more rich in color and giving your background a more foggy look - basically compositing.

You could also try turning off some shadows so your cpu doesn't have to work as hard and see if that helps. try turning off the shadows in the distance on trees and houses which you wont see, iclone doesn't have culling so even though you don't see a shadow doesn't mean it's not being calculated and adding stress to your cpu / gpu.

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Unfortunately to get the best out of iClone 5.5 you may need to consider a computer upgrade.

An Nvidia 8500 GT and only 2GB of ram is really not enough for iClone 5.5 and why you are experiencing problems. If you have a Desktop then you should be able to update the graphics card and add more memory for not much of an outlay.

                                                                

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Does ICLONE take advantage of GPU ?