ZBrush can't use more than 4 gigs of ram. Going to 12 gigs will only keep you from running out of memory if you have ZBrush + tons of other apps open at the same time. 15 million points for a single subtool is too much. Don't bother overclocking your shit, you just need to use your geometry more efficiently.
Thank you for all the replies! When I said 15 mil polys I did not mean on a single subtool -but across all the subtools I'm using. But from what you guys are saying I'm assuming I should not bother with upgrading hardware untill Zbrush 5 - instead need to take better care of managing/displaying subtools And once the…
Hello everyone. I will be cheeky and repost my question from another forum, since the more feedback the better, hope you don't mind I have started playing with zbrush about 2 weeks ago. I have been following various tutorials online and in the beginning it was fine - then once I hit a total of 15 mil points in w/e project…