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27/08/2010 08:50:38

artpenMuvizu mogulExperimental user
artpen
Posts: 362 		I've nearly finished my movie, but I'm finding animating really hard now
the application is really sluggish now, its hard to see the animations as I want them.
Any info on how to speed it up?
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27/08/2010 09:20:39

glasgowjim
glasgowjim
Posts: 698 		Hi again artpen,

Here is a guide on increasing performance that will be in the new forums at the start of next week:

Muvizu is a very resource-intensive application so if you are running a lot of background programmes at the same time you may suffer a drop in performance, so I would recommend closing all unnecessary programmes while running Muvizu - especially on older PCs.

If you have Windows 7 or Vista closing Aero and the Side Bar can also increase performance:

Close Side Bar:
The following tutorial is pretty easy to follow:
http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/How-to-close-or-exit-Sidebar-in-Windows-Vista-%7BTutorial-for-beginners%7D/27223

Disable Windows Aero:
This is also a pretty decent tutorial:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/disable-aero-on-windows-vista/

Updating your Graphics card drivers to the latest version can also increase performance:

You can get the latest NVIDIA drivers from:
http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

And the latest ATI drivers from:
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

You can also lower the resolution that Muvizu is running at by going to the "Prefs" menu in Muvizu - generally the lower the resolution the faster Muvizu will run.

You can also disable lighting by pressing F2, but you will probably want to turn it back on using F3 when you are dealing with your lights or making any recordings.

If that doesn't help please let me know.

Take care,
-Jim.
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27/08/2010 09:31:07

artpenMuvizu mogulExperimental user
artpen
Posts: 362 		Thanks mate, ill try these, god don't you just hate computers
when they don't behave , evil laugh " ha h
a ha!!! "
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01/09/2010 13:14:53

glasgowjim
glasgowjim
Posts: 698 		No problem - hope it works.

I don't hate computers - if they didn't exist I wouldn't have a job :P.
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01/09/2010 13:26:15

toonaramaMuvizu mogulExperimental user
toonarama
Posts: 661 		artpen
I know it's all a**e about t*t and causes problems of its own but i try and do my animations before adding lighting/cameras/scenery etc which all gradually reduce the performance on us poor sods with below spec machines
all the best
Toonarama
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