Frame on PC = upgrade the Graphics Card?

[Dov Isaacs]

My experience is that for FrameMaker, the graphics card
is of relatively low significane for performance issues.

I would endorse Richard's suggestions wrt/ memory and 
disk. A full boat of real memory and high speed disk
(at least 7200 RPM if not higher) will make the most
difference for long, complex FrameMaker documents.

	- Dov

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Combs, Richard
> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 9:12 AM
> To: James Dyson; framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: RE: Frame on PC = upgrade the Graphics Card?
> 
> 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
>