Worth the trouble?

Rwolf · Aug 2005

I'm getting bored out of my mind at work, And thinking of Hi-Jacking my brothers old clunky 800 mhz? Dell labtop w/ intergrated video chipset, wiping the HDD, and loading 3Dsmax on it.

Now is it worth the trouble of runing 3Dsmax 5 on it? or will it be to slow to be usable? (I've tried running 3Dsmax 5 on XP on my 2ndary PC - 1.7 Ghz Athlon w/ PCI Radeon 9250 Gfx card and navagation was abit chunky w/ models over 2000 polies)

I don't know if Win XP is nececary... would Win2K run faster when running 3dsmax?

Slum · Aug 2005

I used to run max 6 on my old 1.1ghz, 256mb of RAM, and an integrated 4mb Intel chip. It was pretty choppy and gross.

CheapAlert · Aug 2005

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I don't know if Win XP is nececary... would Win2K run faster when running 3dsmax?

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Oh yeah, after all WinXP is just Win2k with unneccessarily-added 1984 and fisherprice to it.

pior · Aug 2005

Hey Rwolf

My comp is a bare 1ghz with a stone age GF4Ti4200 and it runs max4 to 7 smoothly, its fast enough for me for lowpoly models, and dense highpoly models aren't an issue either with turbosmooth and a bit of clever masking and optimise modifier tick/untick.

Can even run some Doom3 test maps to check nextgen assets and all that. Hence I guess 800 suffice!

Can't remember how much ram I have atm tho.

Noren · Aug 2005

I used an Athlon 800 at home for a long time.
You might need a little bit of patience here and there, though

. However you most propably will need to buy a cheap 3d-card to make it work, since the onboard graphics won't be a 3d-card. (I assume. )On the other hand it might work with Software-Rendering, too, especially for lowpolymodels. Never tried that, though.

snemmy · Aug 2005

i ran 3dsmax 3 and 4 on a 350mhz w/ Voodoo3 and 667 mhz for a few years. worked fine.

Rwolf · Aug 2005

Ok I'll give it a shot. Although I shudder as it takes 15 min for Windows to load up -.-

bloody alligator · Aug 2005

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Rhinokey · Aug 2005

i started with max 2.5 on a 250mhz, it sucked but i think an 800 should be able to run it fine unless you start hitting anything high poly

I WUZZ MOJO

(haha edited wrong post, sorry Mojo!)

Worth the trouble?

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