faster than realtime playback

[jake]

hi,

i'm just doing some basic test animations and houdini never plays them back anywhere near real time.

it's always much much faster.

i have tried switching my global animation options from maintain realtime playback to play every frame, but neither slows it down.

any suggestions of what i should try?

i'd like to think my computer is too much of a beast, but i doubt this is the case.

its a q9300 with 4 gigs of ram (but in 32 bit xp, so it's limited to 3 gigs)

also, i'm running a ati 4850 with ati drivers 8.512

all in houdini 9.1.124

[Guest Swann]

:coffee1:

[jake]

now i just feel silly.

thanks.

[Guest Swann]

thanks.

hey, how this ATI card is working with Houdini ? any problems ?

Edited August 29, 2008 by SWANN

[jake]

in windows, no problems at all.

however, as far as i can tell its linux drivers aren't as good.

so it's sort of usable, but i'm waiting a release or two to go over full time.

[Jason]

ps. push the button on far right on that button-strip and you'll see the option to: "Play Every Frame, but Never Faster Than Realtime" - this is one of the most useful modes, I think.

[jake]

ps. push the button on far right on that button-strip and you'll see the option to: "Play Every Frame, but Never Faster Than Realtime" - this is one of the most useful modes, I think.

i had that selected, but it didn't help.

swann was right, i just didn't have that button enabled. it fixed the problem.