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Is anybody using FoCal on a XP SP3 with 2GB of ram?
Mt Spokane Photography:
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--- Quote from: Mt Spokane Photography on June 13, 2012, 11:39:25 AM ---It requires all the memory and horsepower you can give it. Its does sone very complex computations.
Spend $50 or less and get more memory. For DDR3, its under $25 for 4GB, but older memory is a bit more expensive.
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:) I guess I will need to shell out the time to get my old laptop or desktop upgraded the $50 is not an issue, both my laptop and desktop are over 3 years old...
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You are in luck, memory is priced low. If you have SATA drives consider buying a 128gb SSD and install your programs on it while you put your data on the rotating drive. Then, when Windows switches out memory to the drive (virtual memory), it will speed up things a lot. You will be using a lot of virtual memory trying to edit 5D MK III images on a 3GB machine. When you upgrade computers, just move the SSD to the new one and use it the same way. Many new computers are starting to come configured this way, with a small SSD for the OS/Programs and a large rotating hard drive for data. I've reconfigured all of mine to operate like this, except for laptops, I just use a SSD.
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I need to get LR 4.1 too and it does not run on XP :(
So I will need to update my setup anyway... Will take your suggestion then. Thanks.
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At some point, it just becomes easier to buy or build a whole new computer. I've been looking at upgrades, benchmarks, etc for the last few weeks. If you buy a machine with windows 7 now, you will get a upgrade to windows 8 for $14 when its released. I really do not see a whole lot of improvement over my 3 year old i7 generation 1 computer, but maybe enough that I can cut 25% off my editing time. I'd have to step up to a 6 core processor to actually have a big difference in rendering times.
rpt:
--- Quote from: Mt Spokane Photography on June 13, 2012, 01:04:24 PM ---At some point, it just becomes easier to buy or build a whole new computer. I've been looking at upgrades, benchmarks, etc for the last few weeks. If you buy a machine with windows 7 now, you will get a upgrade to windows 8 for $14 when its released. I really do not see a whole lot of improvement over my 3 year old i7 generation 1 computer, but maybe enough that I can cut 25% off my editing time. I'd have to step up to a 6 core processor to actually have a big difference in rendering times.
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I don't know about windows 8. I am skeptical about windows versions. Once I latch on to a stable version, I stay there for a loooooooooooong time. Hardware is different. I recycle every 3 to 4 years and it is due now...
Thanks for the info though.
kasperj:
I have very recently been running FoCal Pro v1.4.3.105 on my work pc only because the otherwise excellent app doesn't support Mac - WTF!?
Anyway, just checked my configuration and lord and behold I actually has FoCal Pro running on 2GB ram on XP SP3. Didn't experience any issues after testing 6 lenses on a 5D mkiii
Cheers
Mt Spokane Photography:
--- Quote from: rpt on June 13, 2012, 02:45:28 PM ---
--- Quote from: Mt Spokane Photography on June 13, 2012, 01:04:24 PM ---At some point, it just becomes easier to buy or build a whole new computer. I've been looking at upgrades, benchmarks, etc for the last few weeks. If you buy a machine with windows 7 now, you will get a upgrade to windows 8 for $14 when its released. I really do not see a whole lot of improvement over my 3 year old i7 generation 1 computer, but maybe enough that I can cut 25% off my editing time. I'd have to step up to a 6 core processor to actually have a big difference in rendering times.
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I don't know about windows 8. I am skeptical about windows versions. Once I latch on to a stable version, I stay there for a loooooooooooong time. Hardware is different. I recycle every 3 to 4 years and it is due now...
Thanks for the info though.
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Windows 7 is very good, a huge improvement in many ways over XP. (Vista was a dog). Windows 8 is more of a minor upgrade, but better supports SSD's and touch screens. SSD's are one of the low cost ways to boost performance in a pc, but the operating systems haven't fully caught up yet, so any improvements that improve use with a SSD are welcome to me.
It doesn't hurt that I have a relative at Microsoft, so I can get Windows at his cost.
rpt:
--- Quote from: kasperj on June 13, 2012, 04:56:21 PM ---I have very recently been running FoCal Pro v1.4.3.105 on my work pc only because the otherwise excellent app doesn't support Mac - WTF!?
Anyway, just checked my configuration and lord and behold I actually has FoCal Pro running on 2GB ram on XP SP3. Didn't experience any issues after testing 6 lenses on a 5D mkiii
Cheers
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Thank you! so I'll take a shot at it and if for some stupid reason it needs more memory, I will upgrade ram then.
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