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Re: New LDConfig.ldr color file
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Date:
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Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:34:30 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Tore Eriksson wrote:
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Viewing just a small portion of Datsville on my AMD1100, for example
TOWN-10.ldr, takes 1.8 seconds in L3Lab. But several minutes in LDView - if it
doesn’t crash. I am unemployed and with absolutely no hope whatsoever of
getting a fulltime job that will make me able to afford a new PC. (And anyway,
I doubt that a top modern state of the art home PC comes close to 1.8 seconds
in LDView.)
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I have a few comments here. First of all, if you’re going to load a huge model
in LDView, it’s usually best to set its “Memory Usage” setting to Low
(especially on old hardware). Secondly, as has been pointed out, LDView takes a
lot longer to load models than L3P, but after they are loaded, they can be
examined at much higher speed (although not once they cause LDView to have to
swap).
On my computer here at work, I get around 2.5 FPS on town.mpd (from
here) once it has
loaded. That’s all of Datsville, and it does take awhile to load (about 35
seconds). Switching to town-10.dat in the MPD gives me around 50 FPS with
memory usage set to Low and 75 FPS with memory usage set to High. (I switched
to High after selecting the town-10.dat MPD sub-model; loading town.mpd with it
set to High is generally a bad idea.)
All of the above was done on a recent fast computer, and obviously things slow
down dramatically as the age of the computer increases. On your computer, L3Lab
seems to be a more appropriate program, because it was designed with different
goals, but the fact is that on a modern computer, LDView works fine, even with
large models.
--Travis
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| (...) That is just so not true. (...) Well then, welcome to my reality. Viewing just a small portion of Datsville on my AMD1100, for example TOWN-10.ldr, takes 1.8 seconds in L3Lab. But several minutes in LDView - if it doesn't crash. I am (...) (15 years ago, 11-Aug-09, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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