Hardware for running Ecotect

[dfi]

Does anyone have recommendations for the best hardware set up for running Ecotect? It seems like what are fairly simple analysis can take much longer than necessary?

[David Haynes]

Here is what Autodesk says:

Minimum Hardware System Requirements
• Intel® Pentium® II processor or equivalent, 300 MHz or faster
• 128 MB RAM or higher
• 85 MB free hard disk space or higher
• OpenGL® hardware accelerated video card
• 1,024 x 768 high-color (16-bit) screen resolution or higher

Now...I would recommend.

Dual Core CPU
2GB RAM

Hope this helps.

[Andre Baros]

Ecotect takes advantage of the video card pretty heavily so I would pay attention to that too. I don't have specific cards in mind but you clearly want really good OpenGL support on the card.

[Steve Hutana]

Hi - running previous PC with 2 gig caused Massive delay's when computating anaylsis for a typical shoe box residential house for inside/outside temperature.

Upgraded to 4gig and core 2 vPro with noticable improvement!

2gig is too slow for basic anaysis

Cheers

[dhurtubise]

The minute you run an analysis you need CPU, lots of CPU speed.

[David Haynes]

It is safe to say that in today's software - the more RAM the better.

[Eduard]

Hello folks,

I'm wondering about my renderings time. I've checked the windows task manager, while doing a radiance picture - it seems strange, that the software just takes ~15% of the cpu and round about 2gb of 8gb ram. Is there any way to allow etotect using more ressources to speed up "rendering"-time?

Wish everyone a nice weekend.