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Re: How much RAM do you really need?
« on: September 12, 2005, 03:19:27 PM »
Back in the day I used to make long animations that I played from RAM through Scala and then genlocked onto video tape. Some of the animations were Vista Fly-throughs but most were raytraces. The biggest single animation I made was about 119mb and I slapped that in RAM because I had a full Cyberstorm card.
If I go back to that as a hobby I will have enough RAM to make quite a big animation because I have finally sorted out my PPC SIMM problem. So now I have the 128 on the PPC card, another 128 on a DKB3128 board, plus the 16 on the mobo. That's quite a bit.
By the way, raytracing with Cinema4D and high detail / polygon counts SUCKS UP the RAM. You think 128mb is a lot, it isn't. I got out of memory errors many a time with only 128mb.
On the PC side, Cinema 4D has soaked up 580mb of RAM all on its own, so the Amiga is still a very memory-friendly machine.
 

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Re: How much RAM do you really need?
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2005, 06:17:31 PM »
"...I'm sure on a Windows computer with 1Gb RAM, you could run out of memory if you really wanted to..."
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I've run out with 2gb of RAM on my PC, so yes there is no guarantee of ever having enough.