iClone Laptop advice

No Kevin 64GB of RAM is not overkill at all with iClone6. I have lots of avatars in some of my scenes. I thought the same so after switching back to Intel motherboard in about 2 decades, I only used the four slots on one side which gave me 64 GB. After I added a background avatar the motion puppet greyed out on me, and I was not able to use it. I rebooted and I got the same result. I then ordered 32 GB of RAM for the other side to fill up two of the last remaining 4 slots, and that gave me 96 GB. Now I could add puppet animation to the avatar, and added a few more avatars, but while playing back the project I could see it slowing and out of time with the music. I later bought another 32 GB, and now with a total of 128 GB, the playback timing seems to be normal now. Maybe with some older or another type motherboard and smaller projects it's overkill like I also thought. But it really does work, and that was with my virtual memories being cranked up before I added the 64 GB of RAM. So those who use a lot of things in their projects or in the future to get a motherboard with 8 memory slots. There is a difference between 64 GB where I started on this motherboard and more memory. You will not need it if you have simple projects, but keep this in mind if you upgrade your system and motherboard. AMD motherboards only allowed me a max of 4 x 8 GB, which is 32 GB total. If I had problems with 64 GB of RAM with this project, imagine how many avatars I would have been not able to add with only 32 GB of RAM? How many avatars do I have in the scene? I've never really counted. I think I could probably get away with 10 more Avatars, but I'm not really using CC characters maybe 2 or 3, because they eat up memory. Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

Home built; ASRock X570 Pro 4, AMD Ryzen 9-5950X CPU, AMD RADEON RX6900XT, 16GB video card, 131GB of RAM.

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animagic	animagic Posted 9 Years Ago
Distinguished Member Group: Forum Members Last Active: Last Year Posts: 15.8K, Visits: 31.4K	sbaerman (1/20/2017) The reason why I decided for MSI over Asus is that they have slot in Graphic Cards. As far as I know Asus has soldered in Graphic cards. As the processor speeds not really are improving that much compared to how the GPU market is doing, I decided, that this is the most important to be able to buy a new card in a couple of years and no need to sell the laptop away. That is a good point. I have an older desktop and by upgrading just the graphics card it got a new lease on life. The big disadvantage of laptops is usually that you can't upgrade components. There are a few boutique laptop makers that feature exchangeable components as well. One vendor is http://www.xoticpc.com/, which has a search facility on their site.They feature their own brand and also sell others.

rgreenidge	rgreenidge Posted 9 Years Ago
Distinguished Member Group: Forum Members Last Active: 2 Years Ago Posts: 257, Visits: 1.7K	No Kevin 64GB of RAM is not overkill at all with iClone6. I have lots of avatars in some of my scenes. I thought the same so after switching back to Intel motherboard in about 2 decades, I only used the four slots on one side which gave me 64 GB. After I added a background avatar the motion puppet greyed out on me, and I was not able to use it. I rebooted and I got the same result. I then ordered 32 GB of RAM for the other side to fill up two of the last remaining 4 slots, and that gave me 96 GB. Now I could add puppet animation to the avatar, and added a few more avatars, but while playing back the project I could see it slowing and out of time with the music. I later bought another 32 GB, and now with a total of 128 GB, the playback timing seems to be normal now. Maybe with some older or another type motherboard and smaller projects it's overkill like I also thought. But it really does work, and that was with my virtual memories being cranked up before I added the 64 GB of RAM. So those who use a lot of things in their projects or in the future to get a motherboard with 8 memory slots. There is a difference between 64 GB where I started on this motherboard and more memory. You will not need it if you have simple projects, but keep this in mind if you upgrade your system and motherboard. AMD motherboards only allowed me a max of 4 x 8 GB, which is 32 GB total. If I had problems with 64 GB of RAM with this project, imagine how many avatars I would have been not able to add with only 32 GB of RAM? How many avatars do I have in the scene? I've never really counted. I think I could probably get away with 10 more Avatars, but I'm not really using CC characters maybe 2 or 3, because they eat up memory. Enjoy the rest of the weekend. Home built; ASRock X570 Pro 4, AMD Ryzen 9-5950X CPU, AMD RADEON RX6900XT, 16GB video card, 131GB of RAM.

iClone Laptop advice

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