Resolume 3 with Dual and Quad Core

[multisca]

Hey

I want to Know if Resolume 3 use Multiprocessing or not ?
(better to use a quad or a dual than a single CPU faster ?)

[scottvjguy]

these forums are fresh

Cramming for a show

want to know too

[Phil Sorted]

We are running Resolume 3.0.1 on Core2 Quads running at 3.00GHz.
A look in Task Manager suggests that all four cores are being used by Resolume, although the workload distribution is not particularly even. The busiest core is working about twice as hard as the least busy.

The rest of the machine specs are 4GB 800MHz DDR2 RAM, Nvidia 9800GTX 512MB Graphics and Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB Data drives (only one per machine). We run Windows XP SP3.

I don't have a similarly speced Core2 Dual with which to make a comparison, but I will say this:

We are running 9 layers of video at 2048x768 resolution (2XGA) and while the frame rate goes down as active layers are triggered, we are still unable to max out the CPU or RAM. I have not seen Resolume use more than 70% CPU (average across the four cores) or more than about 1.5GB RAM. So the performance bottleneck has lie elsewhere, in the graphis card, or I suspect the HDD.

I think RAID 0 or SSD will be the next thing to try.

Still, I'm sure the four cores don't hurt - I can task switch out of Resolume in the middle of a performance and post to this forum with no loss of framerate!

Phil x

[HerrNieDa]

has anyone tested graphic cards with more ram? i thought this also could be a bottleneck (i remeber a text machine 3d workshop where the performance dependet very much on the video memory!)
cause if the hdd is fast enough, where should the bottleneck be? i recognized that (like in a previously thread posted) that higher resolutions come with massive framerate loss full hd is much slower than 1920x480 for example.... i don't know how resolume really works but i suggest the video processing is done on the gpu and their memory so far...
i think about buying a new graphic card with lower power consumtion! i would prefer a ati 4830 with 512mb, or maybe 1gb if it makes sense! i also found a geforce 9600 with 2gb ram
any experiences on this? maybe anyone can benchmark with 2 cards with same gpu and different ram size?

[Digitrevx]

We are running Resolume 3.0.1 on Core2 Quads running at 3.00GHz.
A look in Task Manager suggests that all four cores are being used by Resolume, although the workload distribution is not particularly even. The busiest core is working about twice as hard as the least busy.

The rest of the machine specs are 4GB 800MHz DDR2 RAM, Nvidia 9800GTX 512MB Graphics and Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB Data drives (only one per machine). We run Windows XP SP3.

I don't have a similarly speced Core2 Dual with which to make a comparison, but I will say this:

We are running 9 layers of video at 2048x768 resolution (2XGA) and while the frame rate goes down as active layers are triggered, we are still unable to max out the CPU or RAM. I have not seen Resolume use more than 70% CPU (average across the four cores) or more than about 1.5GB RAM. So the performance bottleneck has lie elsewhere, in the graphis card, or I suspect the HDD.

I think RAID 0 or SSD will be the next thing to try.

Still, I'm sure the four cores don't hurt - I can task switch out of Resolume in the middle of a performance and post to this forum with no loss of framerate!

Phil x

Based on those symptoms that's a classic sign the software was written to utilize dual core cpu's. I'm not complaining I was just searching to make recommendations on a resolume machine build. Just my 2 cents