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Figured I should post something since, well... I haven't in about a month
As much as I've enjoyed Age Building, I've been finding that I don't really have any time to do it now that my classes have started back up again (remind me not to take all Honors classes next year <_< ). And that's
partially to blame for my lack of involvment recently here in on Age Builders, as well as the lack of progress I've accomplished on Ri'achi and my shell.
Sadly, on those ultra rare occasions where I have enough time to do more than just browse through some recent topics, I'm faced with a performance issue involving Windows Vista (I'm beta testing it). I don't know what the heck Microsoft was thinking, but Vista's using a little under half a gig of RAM just for idle processes <_<
Normally I'd have enough RAM to make up for this (1.5 GB), but during the installation of Vista on my computer one of my 512 sticks of RAM *somehow* died, and I have yet to replace it (lifetime warranty,
right... :rolleyes: )
So now I'm running with a single gig, half of which is occupied by the system idle processes (even turning off the super kewl transparency effect doesn't seem to lower this), so essentially it's half a gig for me, granted it doesn't run as smooth as half a gig should.
In terms of Blender, it's running horribly. Trying to edit Ri'achi turned into, well, you don't really want to know. I'm able to just barely do active work on my shell (which was thankfully near completion before I switched to Vista, btw), however I can only use the textured view when looking at individual objects (not useful when you're trying to get everything to match up. And then there's vertex paint... ah, it's a big mess
). With any luck I might be able to squeeze out an "ok" looking release within a week or so
, but I don't think I'll be able to make it look exactly how I'd invisioned it now
Some advice from me: do NOT upgrade to Vista if you plan on Age Building (well, unless you have a freakishly good system anyways)