Dual Processor Configuration for Winodws
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‎2005-10-12 09:17 PM
‎2005-10-12
09:17 PM
I work with the U.S. Corps of Engineers in the Tech Support Branch. We have a user using ArchiCAD 9.0 build 2045 His system has 3 GIG of memory... 2- 3.6 GHZ processors.. it seems when he generates fly-thrus. The CPU usage is only around 25% on one CPU and less on the second.. If we move the process priority to above normal, the first CPU goes to 100% and the second is less than 20%. I would think this would load balance better. This is running on a Windows XP SP2. Any thoughts would be greatly appricated... Thanks, Dave.
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‎2005-10-12 10:19 PM
‎2005-10-12
10:19 PM
Coros wrote:Archicad is not optimized for multiple processors.
Hi All,
I work with the U.S. Corps of Engineers in the Tech Support Branch. We have a user using ArchiCAD 9.0 build 2045 His system has 3 GIG of memory... 2- 3.6 GHZ processors.. it seems when he generates fly-thrus. The CPU usage is only around 25% on one CPU and less on the second.. If we move the process priority to above normal, the first CPU goes to 100% and the second is less than 20%. I would think this would load balance better. This is running on a Windows XP SP2. Any thoughts would be greatly appricated... Thanks, Dave.
Tom Waltz
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‎2005-10-12 10:44 PM
‎2005-10-12
10:44 PM
"TomWaltz" wrote:"Coros" wrote:
Hi All,
I work with the U.S. Corps of Engineers in the Tech Support Branch. We have a user using ArchiCAD 9.0 build 2045 His system has 3 GIG of memory... 2- 3.6 GHZ processors.. it seems when he generates fly-thrus. The CPU usage is only around 25% on one CPU and less on the second.. If we move the process priority to above normal, the first CPU goes to 100% and the second is less than 20%. I would think this would load balance better. This is running on a Windows XP SP2. Any thoughts would be greatly appricated... Thanks, Dave.
Archicad is not optimized for multiple processors.
Is there any way to speed it up?

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‎2005-10-12 11:03 PM
‎2005-10-12
11:03 PM
Coros wrote:Sounds like you've already got a fast machine with a boatload of RAM. That's about it.
Is there any way to speed it up?
We're doing fly-throughts on Cinema 4D, which can use our 30 Mac G5 machines as a render farm. Single machines took too long for anything higher than screen resolution or more than several seconds long.
Tom Waltz

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‎2005-10-13 11:46 PM
‎2005-10-13
11:46 PM
As far as I know, the only time ArchiCAD uses the two processors is when you are using the LightWorks rendering engine.
Otherwise that's about the fastest you can go.
I don't know if using fast SCSI drives would make any significant, perceiveable difference. It might.
Otherwise that's about the fastest you can go.
I don't know if using fast SCSI drives would make any significant, perceiveable difference. It might.
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