If you are thinking of a 4k screen and creo 3 don't, yet at least. I am getting very frustrated with performance.
I made a jump from WF5 straight the C3. And whilst Creo3 has many nice features I made the mistake of believing the hype about support for the new 4k screens etc etc. Hardware is so cheap now (and I can say that because in mid 1990's I bought Silicon Graphics workstations for $40k) . So I got my client to buy a new Dell 7810 tower with 7th fastest cpu available (E5 2670 v3 see 'cpu benchmark'), and two of them for good measure with 64GB RAM and nVidia K2200. If this set up doesnt work, being new, fresh out the box with SSD hard drives and nothing else running then what does?
Issues.
1. It seesm the line widths are not controllable in C3, and probably never will be. Hence a highlighted or selected curve may changes from black to blue or green to yellow or red to blue, whatever you choose, but remains so thin that my eyes cant see the difference. Being able to discern the difference between a selected and unselected line is beyond my (and probably most human) optical capacity (even with darkened room, good glasses and trying all manner of backgrounds and colours it is no better). QED 4k screens not practical.
2 Using two 28" 4k screen seems nice, I believe nVidia say you can drive 3 or 4. But they refresh sequentially so the model seems to jump around as you move so you end up working on one. The 4K display LOOKS awesome. But I am actually slower than W5 because I cant see!
3. some thing is slowing the whole system down. I have the Windows 7 performance manager running and for no known reason I see the cpus all jump to nearly flat out and Creo hangs with Not Responding displayed, sometimes for 60 seconds at a time before it settles. For those of you used to crashes my heart is in my mouth every time, 'will it recover? what will I lose if it doesn't?'
I will be happy - nay delighted - to be proven wrong and for someone show me a magic tweak that resolves these key issues. Anyone else having the same challenges? Any response from PTC?
I made a jump from WF5 straight the C3. And whilst Creo3 has many nice features I made the mistake of believing the hype about support for the new 4k screens etc etc. Hardware is so cheap now (and I can say that because in mid 1990's I bought Silicon Graphics workstations for $40k) . So I got my client to buy a new Dell 7810 tower with 7th fastest cpu available (E5 2670 v3 see 'cpu benchmark'), and two of them for good measure with 64GB RAM and nVidia K2200. If this set up doesnt work, being new, fresh out the box with SSD hard drives and nothing else running then what does?
Issues.
1. It seesm the line widths are not controllable in C3, and probably never will be. Hence a highlighted or selected curve may changes from black to blue or green to yellow or red to blue, whatever you choose, but remains so thin that my eyes cant see the difference. Being able to discern the difference between a selected and unselected line is beyond my (and probably most human) optical capacity (even with darkened room, good glasses and trying all manner of backgrounds and colours it is no better). QED 4k screens not practical.
2 Using two 28" 4k screen seems nice, I believe nVidia say you can drive 3 or 4. But they refresh sequentially so the model seems to jump around as you move so you end up working on one. The 4K display LOOKS awesome. But I am actually slower than W5 because I cant see!
3. some thing is slowing the whole system down. I have the Windows 7 performance manager running and for no known reason I see the cpus all jump to nearly flat out and Creo hangs with Not Responding displayed, sometimes for 60 seconds at a time before it settles. For those of you used to crashes my heart is in my mouth every time, 'will it recover? what will I lose if it doesn't?'
I will be happy - nay delighted - to be proven wrong and for someone show me a magic tweak that resolves these key issues. Anyone else having the same challenges? Any response from PTC?
