"Steve Martin" <ecp### [at] bellsouthnet> wrote in message
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> Rafal 'Raf256' Maj wrote:
>
> > Athlon 2.6 GHz / 512 MB RAM. But only program slowing down was Blender
> > after all..
>
> Pardon me if this is irrelevant, but since you say Blender
> is slowing down, it makes me wonder if the problem is
> display-related. The entire user interface of Blender
> is constructed from OpenGL-based components, and depends
> heavily on hardware acceleration of OpenGL. If you're
> running on a box that doesn't have hardware OpenGL,
> then Blender will indeed creep.

i think you are right. that is what I thought of when he mentioned blender.
I would imagine a system such as his would have some sort of 3d exceleration
as it seems modern. maybe he has misconfigured openGL. that's where I would
start looking.

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