is there a way to speed gh up?

Hi, i have a super huge 170mb grasshopper file, and i have hide all of the unneeded previews, but when i pan around, due to the huge file size, gh lags. is there a way for me to get gh work a lot faster in my computer? i have 16gb of rams, quadro 3700 graphics, and a quadcore extreme Q9300 processor, i think that surpass the requirement for gh to work, can i bump it up so that gh will run smoothly??
any advise would be much appreciated

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 23, 2010 at 6:12pm

Hi Guan,

you mean the viewports or the Grasshopper refresh rate?

Try hiding the Compass widget, that should speed up the Grasshopper display.

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Guan Xiong on April 23, 2010 at 6:32pm

Hi david,

THANK YOU SO MUCH, i dont understand how big the difference was made. i dont understhand why the compass is slowing gh down so badly either.
have another question, does gh utilize up a specific amount of ram or processor your computer has or does it utilize as much power as your computer has? i dont think its using most of my computer's performance..is there a way to set it up ?

Guan

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 23, 2010 at 6:55pm

It's because the compass is very badly written. I didn't realize it at the time, only after some serious performance testing did I figure out the compass takes about as much time as everything else on the canvas combined.

Grasshopper is not a multi-threaded application. It will utilize the same core as Rhino so both programs have to share. Rhino (+all plugins) is allowed 2 or 3 GB of RAM under 32-bit OS. So unless you have a 64-bit version of Windows and are running a 64-bit version of Rhino5 you won't be able to use more than 2GB.

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Guan Xiong on April 23, 2010 at 7:02pm

ahha, i have 64 bit windows, but running rhino 4 32 bit, hoping to get the 64bit rhino 5 soon, does gh works in rhino5 as well?? thanks for the info david!

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on April 23, 2010 at 7:19pm

Yes, Grasshopper should work in both 4 and 5, 32 and 64 bit. Hopefully we'll have it running on RhinoMac soon as well.

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Guan Xiong on April 24, 2010 at 4:06pm

thanks for the info david

Guan

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