RobUSMC Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 I've been using X-7 now for about a week and have noticed a huge computer speed slow down during raytracing in X-7. When Raytracing in X-6 I can barely notice any slowdown while using other programs with raytracing is going on in the background with X-6 minimized. I think I have a bit of a beast of a PC with dual higher end processors and graphics cards. However, when raytracing a view in X-7, I am having extreme slow downs in just trying to open other folders on my PC. When I open folders with project phots and try to open these photos, it will think about it for sometimes up top a minute and IF Windows Explorer doesnt become "Not Responding" and has to restart. When I switch back to X-6 with the same plan, same view, same raytrace all is back to normal without any issues. Seems X-7 is throwing up a big road block somewhere that is making me to just want to throw up. LOL. Attached are screen prints of my render & raytrace settings for both X-6 & X-7. Anyone have this issue, thoughts or solutions. Thanks as always to all the gurus out there. Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis_Gavin Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Do you also have a native built in video card? See if X7 is using your souped up video card or a default one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobUSMC Posted February 22, 2015 Author Share Posted February 22, 2015 There is no built in card. Attached is the video card status Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcaffee Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Did you remember to setup X7 & X7 Ray Tracer profiles in the NVidia 3D Settings tool? jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobUSMC Posted February 22, 2015 Author Share Posted February 22, 2015 Never have so not sure how to do that. Have never messed with the card settings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobUSMC Posted February 22, 2015 Author Share Posted February 22, 2015 Is this what you're referring too. There is not a separate CA program setting for any past versions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 I keep my "software edge smoothing" to zero in both preview and final (Let the card do that ,not the software) but only the CPU handles the ray-traces. What you show is really only for renders not ray-traces. Check your ray-trace setup to compare with X6. There are some settings there that will extend the time it takes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcaffee Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 You need to add and optimize both the CA *.exe and the ray trace *.exe under Program Settings. CA does not use DirectX, so disable anything where the description mentions DirectX only. Beyond that, it's really machine specific. One thing I did notice in your CA settings, "Final View". Set Software Smoothing to "0". You want your expensive hardware to do its job, not the software. jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobUSMC Posted February 22, 2015 Author Share Posted February 22, 2015 OK, Ive set edge smoothing to zero. As far as the graphic card settings nowhere does it show anything about DirectX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Yes but that has nothing to do with ray-tracing. Check your ray-trace defaults. I also notice a general slowdown in X7 but it is still in Beta, it should speed up when the release is final. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcaffee Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Rob, you need to setup a profile for CA in the Nvidia Manage 3D Settings>Program Settings. Neither CA or the Ray Tracer are on their list. You must add them manually. jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kbird1 Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 THX for the Tip Jon , I had done the Chief.exe but not the RayTracing engine's .exe in the Nvidia 3D management page Rob it is on this Nvidia management page , if you hover your mouse over the options that you will see DirectX mentioned for some of them Pity you can't copy a profile on this page , would save a bunch of work ......wonder why Chief hasn't contacted Nvidia and had default Profiles supplied? seems Game Developers do it.... M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcaffee Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Pity you can't copy a profile on this page , would save a bunch of work ... M. Oh, wouldn't that be nice. As for "profiles" on NVidia hardware. NVidia only does games on their "Enthusiast" hardware line. If CA (or any non-game vendor) wants optimal settings defined, it's only on their professional Quadro line. jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug_Park Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Uncheck "Use Maximum" under the ray trace preference panel and drop the number of cores used by 1. This will be equivalent to the "Optimize for Chief Architect" setting that you have in your X7 preferences. It gives up 1 core in raytracing allowing the rest of the computer 1 core to work with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheKitchenAbode Posted March 3, 2015 Share Posted March 3, 2015 Doug_Park is correct. There is a setting under "Edit" "Preferences" "Raytrace" that allows you to assign the number of dedicated processor cores to the Raytace process. You need to reduce this by at least one in order to free up some of your processor for other tasks. Keep-in-mind that Raytrace is primarily dependent upon the main processor and not the graphics card. The "Render" settings relate to the camera views so changing these will not have any effect on Raytrace performance. They will however effect camera view performance which in turn is dependent upon the graphics card. Graham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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