Technical Information for Fusion

Please find the answers to your questions below: -

Q: How much does the GPU weight on the actual performance of the rendering?

A: The CPU is extremely important, the is used heavily when rendering, the only renders that are graphics card dependent are the realtime and openGl renders.

Q: Does Planit take advantage of 64bits ?

A: Fusion works under 64 bit operating systems however Fusion is a 32 bit application.

Q: Does Planit take a proportional advantage of more cores or is the speed of the first two the most important, like most software…?

A: Fusion will use as many cores as the PC has during renders only, but these are only used on renders that have ray tracing turned on.

Q: Does RAM play a big part after having 1Gb?

A: Ram is extremely important as this is used during the render along with the application, we suggest a minimum of 2gb as most of 1gb would already be used by the operating system.

Q: Does Windows7 make any difference if it is a dual core with 2Gb of Ram and a Nvidia 9600 ?

A: Windows 7 can be good as it uses about 30% less memory than Vista, therefore you will have more memory available for fusion to use.

Q: Are the new versions optimized to take advantage of Directx or OpenGL and so the rendering is much faster? I could not find any article on the internet concerning performance, do other clients complaint?

A: Fusion uses OpenGl from the graphics card on specific renders, direct can be used if OpenGl is not available, you can see the speed of the render when using realtime renders and the navigation buttons in the perspective view.

I hope the above helps.