High memory usage

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01-30-2017 11:38 AM
JoshSaad1
Occasional Contributor II

Just throwing this out there for the developers.  I just finished Getting to Know ArcGIS Pro.  Chapter 8 deals with rendering temporal data in 3D.  While browsing the map to review the 3D layers, ArcGIS Pro was using 12 GB of system memory.   I thought that seemed a bit high.  I'm using a Dell OptiPlex 7010, which isn't the mightiest of computers, and maybe this wouldn't be an issue if I had a better graphics card.  Either way it may be something to look into.  Thanks.

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DougBrowning
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If you do not have a dedicated video card with a GPU it will have to simulate one and it eats ram like crazy.  I was getting frustrated with Pro being so slow on my box, sometimes unusable.  Then I tested Pro out on a coworkers personal gaming machine.  Machine has 64 GB of ram and a really nice video card with 6 GB of its own ram.  Pro was so fast it was almost hard to use since you would zoom right past stuff.  It really flies with a good card and it really changed my view of Pro.

We had the same issue on a Cloud machine.  With no GPU it brings the whole cloud farm to its knees.

JoshSaad1
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Good to know.  I'll have to keep that in mind when it comes time to upgrade.  Thanks.

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