What is the polycount of the caracter that is being animated? Are their any other objects in the scene? If the animation is slow during playback/scrubbing the timeline in the viewport, then I would bet it has more to do with density of the character mesh. The PC also has 16GB of 1600Mhz DDR3 ECC RAM.Īm I in the right mindset for thinking that another HDD would resolve these issues? Or am I missing something? Also if anyone can point me to materials so I can learn more about rendering from a IT personnel's standpoint, that would be greatly appreciated.

With that said I haven't had the time to look at the CPU utilization to determine if that was being taxed, but for reference the CPU is an Six-core Intel Xeon 3.2GHz with 12MB of cache. I ask this question mainly because the Animator says that the PC runs 'slow' while animating.

As far as a GPU, our Animator uses an nVidia Quadro K5000 4GB card, so for the GPU I believe we are fine. My first question is, does 3ds Max utilize just the GPU and HDD for animation rendering? My thought process was to add a second HDD to the PC so that 3ds Max could render to that drive instead of the system drive that holds Windows. I have a question regarding 3ds Max and ways to achieve the best performance.

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