Hi N-drju,
Quote from: N-drju on April 02, 2014, 02:39:04 AM
@ jo - Thank you for all this information! That's a lot of food for thoughts. So you say it's perfectly fine to upgrade the Mac version of TG2 (I have a demo working there) with the key file used for Windows version? Hm... I can't really imagine how... Do I just copy that file into the TG folder or what?
Yes, exactly. That's all you need to do. Take the key file from Windows and put it in the same folder as the Mac TG application. You will need to download the right Mac version but if you send an email to
registrations@planetside.co.uk Oshyan should be able to sort that out for you.
QuoteAs far as population numbers are concerned, are you sure that we are speaking of regular home computers and not those on space stations? Millions of instances x 15? What kind of system could handle that?
Many systems. Check this out:
http://planetside.co.uk/component/content/article/7-news/2-23-releasedThere are 207,360,000 instances in that first image. This was rendered on my Mac Pro which at the time was a pretty serious system, but you can see that TG can easily manage it. Your system could do it too, with a 64 bit OS and a bit more RAM.
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My system specs are:
Processor - 3.2Ghz Intel Core i3 (4 cores)
Memory - 4GB 1333Mhz DDR3
Operating system - Windows XP Professional 32-bit (through Bootcamp)
Ok, this is good information. For one thing, your CPU is a 64 bit CPU. This means you can run TG in 64 bit mode if you have a 64 bit OS. We strongly recommend running TG on a 64 bit OS. If you change over to using the Mac version of TG and you have at least OS X 10.5 (I would recommend at least OS X 10.6) then you can run TG Mac in 64 bit mode. This would be much cheaper (i.e. free!) than buying a 64 bit version of Windows.
You are almost certainly having problems with rendering because you are using XP 32 bit and TG is running out of RAM. You can improve things by enabling the 3GB switch in the OS. This makes it possible for TG to access 3 GB of RAM instead of only 2 GB. There are instructions for turning on the 3GB switch here:
http://dwf.blogs.com/beyond_the_paper/2009/04/enabling-3gb-switch-on-windows-vista.htmlI can't be responsible for the content of that site but it looks like pretty good information.
However I would strongly recommend that you try TG Mac and use it in 64 bit mode. This will mean TG will be able to use all your 4GB of RAM. In fact it will be able to use more than that but it will mean the OS starts to use virtual memory and it will slow down a lot. You will get far fewer problems due to TG running out of RAM though.
If you can manage it, and your Mac allows you to do it, I would suggest getting some more RAM. I don't think it's terribly expensive at the moment and if you could manage to get up to 8 GB or more then that would make things much easier with complex TG scenes.
Regards,
Jo