Computer Specs for Your Maya Box
 

I just installed Maya and oh my god it is slow - I realize that it is doing a ton of calculations on the fly to add light and objects, etc, but I can't believe that it would be that slow.

Adding a light source and choose "Display Selected Lights" took 3-5 minutes.

My machine is an Athalon 1Ghz, 704MB of RAM, WindowsXP

What are you guys running Maya on?
Is my experience normal?

You have a problem dude.

My specs: Win2000 - 900MHz - 128 MB RAM
Takes about 1sec to update my challenge submarine with three lights.

Hmm, how many applets are you running Maya with? Remember, photoshop and Maya don´t go along well, since they´re both memory hungry. How about WINAMP? MP3 playing while in Maya even though great, does perform a huge difference since MP3 technology eats system resources to decompress the algoritm.

I was playing a WMV tutorial (from SM :)) - Maybe that was the problem.

I just reformatted my machine so I don't think I need a system refresh...

Also - I have a 16MB TNT nVidia Video Card - Do you think that is the problem?

Im on a 1.3 AMD Athlon, 768 megs ram, Windows XP, 64 meg G-force 2 card.


Looks like it your video Card bud, get at least a 64 meg card.

I've got a 2.0 P4, 1 Gb RDRAM, Win XP Pro, 128 mb GeForce 4 Ti4600...

I'm doing ok. :D

I've got;
DELL Inspiron 5000 (laptop)
Pentium III - 600MHz
ATI rage pro 8Mb VRAM (8 MB is max!)
384 MB SDRAM
18GB HDD
Win2000

1.4 P4
256mb RDram
60gb HD (seagate and western digital)
win2k
geforce 2 GTS

i need an upgrade :(

You need one? LOL damn, I´m outdated

amd 1.4
512 sdram
140gb hd
win2k
geforce2ti

@undseth.. 8mg!!! damn man!!
@adl.. why man.. what you got..

@Roman
:D

lol.. ahahahahahah.. i neeeeedd MOORRREEEE SLEEEEEEPPP!!!

do you believe me that i actually DID read it.. hahahaha :D

Hahahaha! Hahahaha!

2.53ghz P4
1 gig of ram (pc1066 RDRAM)
128mb ti4200
2x 80gb WD's

Does me fine :D

Dual P4 Xeon 2.2ghz
512 RDRAM 800mhz
GeForce 4 TI4600 128mb
3ware 7540 IDE Raid
5-100gb EIDE 100 Hard Drives. ;)
4 in a RAID 5 Array and 1 as a backup drive.