Everyone, what Graphics Card are you using?

[Taron]

NICE! I should add a polygon count for that, just for kicks!
Thanks, jim!

Win7 Home
I5 quad core@~3GHz with 8 GB RAM
Nvidia GTX 550Ti- 2 GB
Intuos 4 tablet
Dual monitors
Verve has 1920 x 1080
Runs pretty well depending on settings.

I was fumbling around in my closet just now and found my GPU box. AMD 7790? Waaat. I guess I had it wrong all along.

[Taron]

Eh, that's a good one for sure!

Well, that's a $35 graphics card from 2009. Hmmm...that's virtually amazing it didn't explode the moment you started Verve...
But thanks for testing it, that's great and courageous!

Yeah quite old, but I run Photoshop CS6 and many (3D) games without any problem (and some parameters in high values ).
So I never thought about not being able to run it!

[Taron]

Try the latest version, by the way, it should be a bit faster! But, yeah, 3d games don't do what Verve does, you know. Photoshop certainly doesn't do what Verve does. And both have most likely much better programmers than I am, hahahaha ...but I'm working on it! If you find a fluid dynamics based painter out there that is faster, let me know!

Yeah, that last 0.99r version is now much more faster on my nVidia 8600 GTS.
Btw. great work Taron.

[Taron]

Thanks, iskon! I'm trying!

But isn't it also about CPU?
One off my cores goes up to 100% when drawing with verve.
Even verve in idle already put cpu usage at 17%.

[Taron]

Should depend on what your using for the drawing, but that it goes up to 100% is a bit curious, I think. However, I at least hooked up that "minimize" should put Verve to sleep. I still didn't do any elegant window hooking, which would make it easier for me to send it to sleep, if it was in the background. Eventually I'll have to do all that, which could also potentially give another speed increase.