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 get lost in the details of hardware > configurations etc., but was wondering if anyone had any > success in alleviating the problem
I suspect there'd be no noticeable improvement. (I assume your PC currently has a reasonably recent video card, not just an on-the-motherboard graphics chip that shares system memory.) John asked the first key question -- are the graphics on a network server? Assuming they're on your PC, how much RAM does it have? More RAM would almost certainly make far more difference than a faster graphics card. You should have at least a gigabyte. If you have lots of large graphics, adding a second gig would be worthwhile. A very slow hard drive could also be a factor, but that's unlikely with a reasonably current PC (you do defrag regularly, right?). HTH! Richard ------ Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 ------ rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 ------