Frame on PC = upgrade the Graphics Card?

[Combs, Richard]

James Dyson wrote: 
 
> Has anyone noticeably improved the rate at which graphics are 
> loaded in Frame while running on a PC when they upgraded 
> their graphics card? We are considering doing so here, and I 
> suspect it will make a vast improvement. Our PCs are pretty 
> current. I don't want to get lost in the details of hardware 
> configurations etc., but was wondering if anyone had any 
> success in alleviating the problem

I suspect there'd be no noticeable improvement. (I assume your PC
currently has a reasonably recent video card, not just an
on-the-motherboard graphics chip that shares system memory.) 

John asked the first key question -- are the graphics on a network
server? 

Assuming they're on your PC, how much RAM does it have? More RAM would
almost certainly make far more difference than a faster graphics card.
You should have at least a gigabyte. If you have lots of large graphics,
adding a second gig would be worthwhile. 

A very slow hard drive could also be a factor, but that's unlikely with
a reasonably current PC (you do defrag regularly, right?). 

HTH!
Richard


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Richard G. Combs
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