System Too Old?

DavidBird wrote on 9/20/2002, 10:06 AM
Okay, I've downloaded the demo and I really like this software...
My question...I'm running an Athlon 800, 512 meg of memory, Matrox Millennium G400 video card, and 5,600 rpm hard drives....Irrespective of rendering time, can this system effectively support VV3....or do I (groan) need to bit the bullet and upgrade to a newer/faster system..
Thanks - David

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MyST wrote on 9/20/2002, 10:23 AM
I've got an 850 Athlon T-Bird,512 megs of RAM, a 3dfx VooDoo 3 2000 video card and I've had no problems. Mind you, it all depends what you plan on doing.
I'm a just a hobbyist with this software for now, so I can't say I've pushed it.
I plan on getting much deeper into it in the next little while, so maybe then I'll notice "hiccups" and such.
Basically, start using it,see what you can do, then if your system starts complaining...$$$
My next upgrade is the videocard. Soon I want to move from Windows Me to XP, and since there are no more official drivers for the VooDoo, I'll switch at the same time.
Always remember to defrag, shut down unneccesary programs/anti-virus to put everything on your side.

HTH
kkolbo wrote on 9/20/2002, 10:27 AM
Gee, one of my two systems is a 450Mhz PIII with 128mb of RAM and on-board video. I was editting video with Vegas on that until I recently put a serious machine on-line. When the big machine is rendering a difficult section, I still come back to the old one to keep slicing.

I would think you should be fine.

k
vinmangraphics wrote on 9/20/2002, 1:58 PM
If you only have a single drive (5400rpm) in that system, you may want to consider adding a 7200rpm drive for your video. That way your video drive doesn't need to share access with the operating system or other applications swapping memory to/from the drive while you're capturing/printing to tape.

BillyBoy wrote on 9/20/2002, 6:18 PM
It will work... two things that may upset you, really depends on your pain tolerence. A "slow" CPU (sorry, today a 800Mhz is slow) will take a LOT longer to render the files. It also will mean the frame rates in your preview window will probably be painfully slow. If you can live with these things, your system is up to the task and the created files are uneffected by 'slow' rendering.

I know SoFo suggest 7200 RPM drives. Many here including me also use 5400 RPM and have no troubles. Again for printing to tape and captureing you will do yourself a big favor if you use a SEPERATE hard drive, not just a new partition, a SEPERATE hard drive, which should eliminate any dropped frame issues.