Hi,
I played so far with the WM demo version and I have to say that I liked it very much.
Before purchasing WM I do have a very specific question:
I have my drive C built from 2 SSD setup in Raid 0, and I have to say that is really fast. Does it help to speed up things( compared or not with the IDE drives) when the amount of RAM memory I have is not enough? Or it simply doesn`t matter?
Thanks.
Funny you ask this…
Short version: absolutely. Just make sure your temp folder is on the SSD path and you’re set.
Long version:
World Machine does its own paging to keep memory use under the level that causes the “thrashing of death” that typically occurs once you hit memory exhaustion. One of the things I"m working on right now in the next WM 2.3 beta is fixing a couple paging bugs that lead to instability. In the process of doing some testing, I’ve setup my temp folder to a solid state drive I have here, and it is a remarkable thing – it nicely expands the highest practical resolution that you can work with. The only limitation is that you still need to have enough memory to let a device load in all its inputs at once, which for some devices is the main limiting factor.
Purchased.
Thanks for your answer.