RE: Frame on PC = upgrade the Graphics Card?

2006-11-07 Thread Rene Stephenson
Another note on server-based data: if you're having to access the server via VPN, there are faster VPN routers, and tunnels and there are slower ones...so check that, too. :-) Rene Stephenson Dov Isaacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Further update ... If you are access data from a server,

Re: Frame on PC = upgrade the Graphics Card?

2006-11-06 Thread John Posada
I don't have a problem with graphics loading speed. Are you pulling them down over a network? --- James Dyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Has anyone noticeably improved the rate at which graphics are loaded in Frame while running on a PC when they upgraded their graphics card?

RE: Frame on PC = upgrade the Graphics Card?

2006-11-06 Thread Combs, Richard
James Dyson wrote: Has anyone noticeably improved the rate at which graphics are loaded in Frame while running on a PC when they upgraded their graphics card? We are considering doing so here, and I suspect it will make a vast improvement. Our PCs are pretty current. I don't want to

RE: Frame on PC = upgrade the Graphics Card?

2006-11-06 Thread James Dyson
, 2.39 GHz) 512 MB Ram Intel(R) 82865G Graphics Controller (isn't this a cheap imbedded chipset?) Windows XP -Original Message- From: Combs, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 12:12 PM To: James Dyson; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Frame on PC

Re: Frame on PC = upgrade the Graphics Card?

2006-11-06 Thread Art Campbell
Like the others, I don't think adding a graphics card is going to have any effect. What you're complaining about / experiencing is the time required for Frame to render the -- Art Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... In my opinion, there's nothing in this

Re: Frame on PC = upgrade the Graphics Card?

2006-11-06 Thread Art Campbell
Whoops something odd happened there. What I was trying to say was that What you're complaining about / experiencing is the time required for Frame to render the graphic plus any network transport time. Because it's FM doing the rendering, how much RAM you have on the graphics card is a

RE: Frame on PC = upgrade the Graphics Card?

2006-11-06 Thread Ridder, Fred
Rendering for the screen is not the bottleneck. Downloading an image and/or rendering it internally are *far* slower than the on-screen rendering. A high-powered graphics card only makes an improvement for things like PhotoShop, 3D rendering applications (e.g. CAD), and gaming where millions of

RE: Frame on PC = upgrade the Graphics Card?

2006-11-06 Thread Combs, Richard
James Dyson wrote: Yes, the graphics are on a server, but we haven't ever noticed any slow data rates in the past. We can't move the So you're saying that, on the _same_ PCs with the _same_ graphics subsystem and memory, the graphics used to load faster? Well, then your question is answered

RE: Frame on PC = upgrade the Graphics Card?

2006-11-06 Thread Dov Isaacs
, complex FrameMaker documents. - Dov -Original Message- From: Combs, Richard Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 9:12 AM To: James Dyson; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Frame on PC = upgrade the Graphics Card? James Dyson wrote: Has anyone noticeably improved

RE: Frame on PC = upgrade the Graphics Card?

2006-11-06 Thread Dov Isaacs
)! - Dov -Original Message- From: Dov Isaacs Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 12:51 PM To: Combs, Richard; James Dyson; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: RE: Frame on PC = upgrade the Graphics Card? My experience is that for FrameMaker, the graphics card is of relatively