Hey guys, just some questions as far as what I should expect to see with generations.
I have the following machine
Dual, Quad Core Xeon 2.0 ghz nehalem chips
12 gigs of ram
3 x 15000 RPM sas harddrives - single disk mode
Geforce GTX 295
Windows 7 - 64
I upgraded from a Dual core 3 ghz, 4 gigs of ram and a geforce gt 8800
After the upgrade, I can tell things are definitely a big faster. But considering the major upgrade I would expect this to dump maps a lot faster. I took a map dump from http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/ for michigan (256m picture) and generated the map, 6016x6016. I then imported it to VTP, exported the BT and then began creating all of the maps for the system in L3DT. Now, I am sitting at 9 hours of generation, 30% of the Normals are done and it still has 4 hours left on the normals.
I also, forced 8 cores and synced the processes before running the generation.
Am I doing something wrong/missing soemthing or is this what I should expect. I mean, I realize the map is HUGE! I just assumed things would be a bit faster on this rig.
Thevisad