By John A. Johnson (Johnny) (67.248.139.156) on Tuesday, December 24, 2002 - 07:30 pm:

While I can get it to work Modeler seems buggy and super-slow, post 10.2.3 update.

takes forever for it to draw tool buttons and viewpanes when launched, and I can't even get it to switch from Front view to Perspective, etc.

anyone else experience similar performance degradation?

Johnny

By James Burns (Jpburns) (24.98.29.13) on Wednesday, December 25, 2002 - 11:31 am:

No problem, here.

By Jason Hillon (Tumblemonster) (24.245.0.34) on Thursday, December 26, 2002 - 06:39 pm:

I just got back to my machine after the update, but so far I haven't noticed any problems.

-j

By guy pensart (Pensart) (80.200.61.59) on Friday, December 27, 2002 - 02:28 pm:

No problem so far.
Hope U will find the problem.
Wish U luck.

By Jonathan S. Dennison (Jdennison) (147.253.17.191) on Sunday, January 12, 2003 - 11:34 pm:

what is your setup?

By guy pensart (Pensart) (217.136.101.188) on Monday, January 13, 2003 - 12:35 am:

No problems here (so far)

By Chris Paveglio (Chrispav) (204.186.217.34) on Sunday, February 02, 2003 - 07:07 pm:

My modeler is the slowest p.o.s. in the world lately. I can't even use the move tool when I have an object with a large number of polygons in it. I am dying here. What's up? Does LW need to be updated for OS 10.2? I know there were a lot of changes to Jag that maybe newtek hasn't accounted for.
Chris

By Greg Reyna (Greg_Reyna) (68.164.54.220) on Monday, February 03, 2003 - 12:25 am:

You guys who are having trouble, what is your setup? Machine, processor, graphics card, RAM, ex-wives performing voodoo rites on you, y'know, the usual stuff...

Greg

By Jonathan S. Dennison (Jdennison) (147.253.17.191) on Monday, February 03, 2003 - 03:00 am:

also, mention what version of LW you are using. I've got 6.5b (yeah, alreayd slow as it is). I really want to know if it's gona affect me.
I'm running on a Dual 1Ghz Quicksilver w/ 1 Gig o' ram and NVidia G-force 4mx. I've read that people have had problems with the G-Force 3 and 4Ti, but havn't heard anything about the 4mx yet, but I'm not riskin' it at the moment.

By John A. Johnson (Johnny) (199.4.18.2) on Monday, February 03, 2003 - 09:43 am:

I am using a Dual 450, OSX 10.2.3, 1.5 GB RAM, about 60 Gig total HD space, Rage card...latest LW version.

It think that some of my modeler problems *could* have been hub-related, based on other posts I've read, but not sure.

J

By Greg Reyna (Greg_Reyna) (68.164.237.40) on Monday, February 03, 2003 - 12:28 pm:

Hm. Well, I have run LW 6.5 on a 400MHz G4 with a 32MB Radeon graphics card and never had any trouble with the speed of Modeler. The only Modeler-related problems I had with that setup, or on this 800MHz dp G4 is when dragging lots of points around under OS 9. I guess the RAM would fragment because invariably, whenever I did some repetative, tiny action like that, after a while Modeler would freeze up. OS X solved that. That's why I assume it was fragmenting RAM, because with the memory protection of OS X the problem went away.

Oh yeah, I just remembered something, if Jonathaan is running OS 9.x Delete or disable the "Quickdraw 3D Rave" extension. I was having some problem that I can't recall when running LW 6 so I called NewTek. They told me to lose that extension, I did and it fixed the problem.

Other than that, I guess the thing to look for is anyone that is running LW successfully on your graphics card, if not, maybe there's some kind of conflict.

In the end I would call NewTek before giving up.

Greg

By Jonathan S. Dennison (Jdennison) (147.253.17.191) on Monday, February 03, 2003 - 01:22 pm:

Ah, yes, that's what I forgot to mention... I'm running in 10.2.2 at the moment. I do have a Radeon PCI in my box, but it's not being used right now.
I'm working on my senior project right now, so I can't risk breking my Lightwave. I must be totally sure that 10.2.3 won't disable me.
Again, I'm currently on v. 6.5b. (I can't afford an upgrade).
thanks ya'll

By Chris Paveglio (Chrispav) (204.186.217.34) on Thursday, February 13, 2003 - 08:44 pm:

I have this same problem- super slow moving objects in modeller.

Using: G4, 733 Digital Audio (dark grey not silver), 1.5GB ram, 60 gb + 80 gb HD (60 GB is the system/apps disk), nVidia gForce 3 (64mb) at 1152x870 millions, OS X 10.2.3, LW 7.5, second video card- ATI Exclaim VR128 (16mb) at 1000's colors, 1024x768, no ex-wives nor girlfriends either

FYI, when I have CPU meter up, when I go to move anything, even a simple 6-poly box, CPU usage goes up to 100%. I am just using 4-view with 1 perspective, usually on flat shade or smooth shade, not often texture shade. Also Layout seems to have acceptable performance. About OpenGL says it is in use.

Chris