Member StephenEdgerton Posted December 11, 2018 Member Report Share Posted December 11, 2018 Hi There, I've been using 3D Coat for a little while now and this has always been an issue. Currently I'm using a file which is 300mb, model has around 5k polys, and i'm painting on one 4k UV set. The file starts off working just fine but as I start to add more and more layers it begins getting incredibly slow to open / send to photoshop, and most of the time crashes due to lack of memory / shuts my pc down all together. I find this a little odd as I have 32gb of RAM. Perhaps though I am missing something here. Does anyone have any ideas of possible solutions? My guess is that it is something to do with the 4k texture size / the amount of layers i'm using (around 70, only colour no spec or bump), but it's difficult to compromise on these things. Unfortunately I am not able to share the .3b file. I'm using 4.8.09(DX64). If any other info is needed, I'd be happy to share Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted December 11, 2018 Report Share Posted December 11, 2018 Hi Your graphic card have enough Vram memory ? Latest version 4.8.28 have better performance, do you like to test it ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member StephenEdgerton Posted December 12, 2018 Author Member Report Share Posted December 12, 2018 Morning, Thanks for the reply! I've installed the version from the link, I will be working on the file again today so i'll see if there is any difference. I'll report back my findings, thanks for that. I have the GeForce GTX 1070, i believe it has 8gb of ram. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted December 12, 2018 Report Share Posted December 12, 2018 Sorry but look as your comp specs are not enough to work with 70 layers at 4K. Try merging down some ones. Keep open the Windows 10 Performance tab, it provides data and graphs that show you detailed information on the current activity of the CPU, memory, disks, and your Ethernet/Wi-Fi connections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member StephenEdgerton Posted December 13, 2018 Author Member Report Share Posted December 13, 2018 Ahh thats a shame, but atleast I know that is the issue. Thanks again for the reply, out of interest do you have a graphics card that you might recommend? would the 1080 be enough? just in case i can persuade my boss to upgrade :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosan Posted December 13, 2018 Report Share Posted December 13, 2018 More vRam and more Cuda Cores always is better. GTX 1080 Ti 11GB is an awesome card, sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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