Windows 11, 3D Painter, AM Loading Work in GPU Memory . . .

[a.quaihoi]

Hi all, 

soooo, just upgraded to Win11 from Win 10 ( had a crash and decided to upgrade )  and have installed AM 19 / 19.5 ect. have noticed some slowdown over from Win 10, has anyone encountered this who's on Win 11, granted my rig is still an old mac pro / DP Xeon 3.4g / 128 Ram /Radeon RX 580, but AM was much faster with windows 10, looking to upgrade the rig soon to a Minisforum MS 1 or Dell precision compact 3240/60 just for AM, with possibly an RTX A2000 / 4000 GPU, am working with Perry Animations on a few things for his feature moofee and the small pc's would be great for potability for onsite work.

On GPU front does anyone know if AM loads most of the workload / models in GPU Memory or still in RAM ? Because if its primarily working from GPU memory then I would like to get a GPU with as much memory as I can. 

Is 3D painter still available ? I have been looking for this and the website is no longer active, can someone point us to where I can buy a licence and download the program.

Latest build, accordion with working keys / bellow is really taxing the system !  - used robcats spring tute to get this working, works like a charm ! Thanks robcat

[robcat2075]

Slower in what regard? Rendering? Real-time playback? The interface?

[a.quaihoi]

Hey Rob, interface / real-time & general usage, when I was installing it on initial launch it took a while, registering plugins ?? then was quite sluggish and became more sluggish, I was monitoring system temps cpu / ram etc.  etc. and the computer was not throttling down, even with real-time subdivision bumped  all the way down it was still sluggish, mysteriously today it seems to be working quick again . . . 🫤 . . . think somethings dying on this old computer . . . time for a upgrade  

[robcat2075]

I haven't gone to Windows 11 yet so i can't speak on that but i haven't heard of anyone else on Win 11 being dramatically hindered.

There will be a slight rendering slowdown in v19.5 overall. Steffen says that a library that was used in v19.0 is no longer supported by the compiler.


For 3D Painter contact I've sent you Filip's email.

He says he bought lifetime hosting for his website but apparently they meant someone else's lifetime!