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Permalink Reply by Ryland Fox on January 12, 2012 at 4:01pm

This should help

http://kbase.vectorworks.net/questions/714/Video%7B47%7DGraphics+Ca...

it says if you have less than 512 you should consider upgrading

we are running 512 and I still get ridiculously long regen times when zooming(if this is what vram effects)

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Permalink Reply by Glenn Arthur on January 12, 2012 at 7:38pm

Hi, 

We use Vectorworks Designer 2011 which includes landmark and architectural( and the hamburger with the lot) .

Our Mac's have 8GB Ram and run it quite well . Our previous Mac and PC's only had 1GB and 2GB , and they went a bit slow in 3D and especially in rendering in 3D .  However 2D seemed to run ok in the 1GB machine.  

RAM here is so cheap , so it might be worth spending $40 to upgrade. Unless of course you have a really old PC that might also need other hardware upgraded as well .

Cheers  Glenn    www.landscapeandarchitecturaldesign.com 

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer mann on January 13, 2012 at 7:25am

thanks.  i have plenty of RAM.  i can get a total of 8GB and i know that it's cheap.  and my processor is 3.06 Ghz so that's all good.  it's the graphics card i'm concerned about because i've heard they are expensive to upgrade.  VL told me 256MB was enough but i don't think i talked to the right guy so i will call again to get more info.  looks like great software, i could get really excited about this.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Whitted on January 17, 2012 at 12:29pm

Graphics cards CAN be expensive to upgrade.  If you go for a high-end/lastest-and-greatest gaming or workstation card anyway.  However even the most basic of cards these days will have at least 512MB, so it would still be faster than your current one, and you can get cards with 1GB for less than $50.

Without knowing more about the hardware you have (what kind of graphics slot in particular) I couldn't make any specific recommendations, but there are definitely upgrade solutions out there to fit just about any budget.

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer mann on January 17, 2012 at 1:44pm

thank you!  appreciate it.

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Permalink Reply by Dennis J. Jarrard, PLA on January 16, 2012 at 9:54am

This guys =====> Eric Gilbey, is a member on here and works for Vectorworks Landmark. Seek him out he might be of help to you.

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Permalink Reply by Jennifer mann on January 16, 2012 at 12:20pm

thank you!

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