System Considerations
Inside LightWave has had a boost in performance over previous versions. In addition, a
good amount of display options have been added, which can be great for your animation
setup but taxing on your system.Obviously, the better your video card, the better the performance
that you??™ll see, and more memory is always good. But you don??™t need to have a
multithousand-dollar system to run LightWave efficiently. On the contrary, LightWave
can run exceptionally well on systems costing just a few hundred dollars. Of course, this
is all dependent on the type of work you??™re doing. Simply put, the more detail you put into
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a 3D model and animation, the more system resources you??™ll need. If there is one thing I
cannot stress enough, it??™s memory. Do not go out and get the fastest processor and skimp
on the memory.You are better off with a 1GHz processor and 1GB of RAM than a 3.0GHz
processor and 256MB of RAM. You may render a little slower, but you??™ll be able to work
faster.Many system crashes are attributed to lack of memory, so try to make your absolute
minimum 256MB.
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