NVidia GeForce GTX 285 Sluggish Performance

[Don Smith]

Not a full stress test yet but a couple of observations..

The ATI Radeon HD 5770 (1024 MB) is clearly better. We’ll see more as I get into text overlays. We’ll see whether it no longer ‘locks’ into Play and won’t come out until a forced restart as the day progresses.

Note that this card has two Mini Display ports and one Dual-Link DVI port. You can use any two at one time, never can you use all three at once. Only the Dual-Link DVI port can drive a 30″ screen to its full res.

The 30″ monitor that’s at half res is truly a pain. It’s 1280×800 while the 30-incher that I display FCPX on (hooked to the Dual-Link DVI port) is at 2560×1600. I suspect that the half-res is due to the Mini Display Port only servicing one link of the dual-link monitor and thus I end up with lower res than if I had a 27″ display hooked to that port.

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[T. Payton]

The 5770 is a beast. Look at this, 3 displays at the same time on my 2006. The VGA monitor is via a mini display port to VGA adapter I got at the Apple Store. I’m sure this uses up quite a bit of GPU VRAM as well as GPU Cycles.

BTW. I got this in hopes of setting up a client monitor that is a mirror of my second display. If you option drag one monitor over another it will mirror. Here is some more info on that:

https://fcp.co/forum/4-final-cut-pro-x-fcpx/1570-how-to-setting-up-a-client-monitor-in-fcp-x#1638

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[Don Smith]

Great tip T!

FCPX is better but still not ‘like BUTTAH!’ using the 5700. For example, if I click away to another program and come back, it takes FCPX between eight and ten seconds to get responsive.

I’m still getting a pause between clicks and resulting action in the two to three second range for practically everything I do. Once in a while its immediately responsive but that’s the exception. I can scrub the horizontal position number in the Inspector, for example, and it’ll still be unresponsive for a couple of seconds and then the clip with jump to the new position, which will be too far because I scrubbed the position number without feedback and don’t know when I’ve gone too far until the jump occurs.

*sigh*

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[Steve Connor]

[Don Smith] “FCPX is better but still not ‘like BUTTAH!’ using the 5700. For example, if I click away to another program and come back, it takes FCPX between eight and ten seconds to get responsive.

I’m still getting a pause between clicks and resulting action in the two to three second range for practically everything I do. Once in a while its immediately responsive but that’s the exception. I can scrub the horizontal position number in the Inspector, for example, and it’ll still be unresponsive for a couple of seconds and then the clip with jump to the new position, which will be too far because I scrubbed the position number without feedback and don’t know when I’ve gone too far until the jump occurs.”

Have patience, hopefully the next version will speed things up!

Steve Connor
“FCPX Agitator”
Adrenalin Television

[T. Payton]

Can you post a screen cast of an example of this?

I’m personally not seeing this kind of delay even on my really old machine. I have FCP X on it’s own “space” in Lion and it is immediately responsive.

One thing to note about 10.0.3. Apparently Apple retooled many of the elements of the timeline including redrawing, and it appears they also changed how saving is performed to the database. I’m sure it was a valiant effort, but on my machine some of the basic editing functions are now much slower than it was in 10.0.2. Alas, a couple steps forward, but several steps back.

I’m doing a multi language video today with Chinese and English Subtitles and it should be a good workout for 10.0.3. I’ll report back anything of significance.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[Don Smith]

This is not as extensive as you may want but I whipped out my 4S and took a short movie of the lag time between switching to FCPX and the time it takes to become active. You have to keep it short to upload by email from the iPhone, so I’ll try to send more short ones later.

I wanted to use an independent camera so that we can eliminate the screen capturing software slowing down the computer.

Download it from my Public folder on me.com. It’s called fcpx1.mov and it’s at

public.me.com/donaldsmith

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[T. Payton]

Saw your video. Thanks for doing it on your iPhone to showing the beach ball actually spinning. Something is definitely going on. Here is some hope for you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r84wSFWWcs

BTW. I also have open: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, FileMaker, pages, Text Edit, OmniFocus, Safari, Mail, Messages, Preview, Transmit, MPEG Streamclip and a few more apps.

2006 MacPro
13GB Ram
1 TB Startup Drive
6 TB Radi via eSata
Radeon 5770, 2 monitors
10.7.3

Perhaps we can screen share on iChat and I can troubleshoot your machine directly.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[T. Payton]

BTW. That was h264 footage, non optimized, with a color correction layer and titles and Playback set to high quality. Hence the skimming was a little sluggish.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque

[Don Smith]

I have a newer Mac Pro. 10GB of RAM (not that much less than your 13GB on the older Mac Pro) and you have a number of heavy-hitting apps open whereas I only have Saftari and Outlook open in addition to a couple of Finder windows.

Yes, something is going on. I’m on the case and I really appreciate your video to show me what I should be getting.

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[T. Payton]

Please let me know anything else I can do of for you.

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T. Payton
OneCreative, Albuquerque