Nikon Capture 4.3 and my PC Help Needed Please

James,
I am no computer guy, but I use 2GB of "matched high quality" Ram. I had Ron Reznik set my computer up and it screams, even NC 4.2.1 that I use is extremely fast.

 

forgot, I also use 2 70GB high speed (10000rpm) raptor hard drives for processing. I store the files on a sepearte SATA drive (300GB)

 

It's the same on mine. Frankly, I've about given up on NC because of its abysmal performance. A guy I know over at Nikonians posted that NC was still too slow on his brand new Dell with 2 GB of RAM. He added another 1 GB and NC finally woke up . . . . :shock:

 

Download the NC 4.3 upgrade, it makes a huge difference in speed compared to the earlier versions. Not only is it much faster, the memory demand has been cut to a fraction of the 4.2. This is clearly seen with D2X NEFs.

Although more RAM is always beneficial on any computer, I run NC 4.3 without any problem on modest systems with single CPU and 512 MB - 1 GB of memory. On my dual-CPU machines (2-4GB RAM) it just flies.

 

I did download version 4.3 and it made hardly any difference. Quite a few folk on Nikonians reported the same thing. Seems to be very machine dependent.

 

Very strange. I upgraded from NC 4.2.1 to 4.3 on 6 different PCs (running under Windows 2000/sp.4 and XP Pro/sp.1), and in each and every case the software changed from unuseable before to highly responsive and low in resource demands afterwards. Except for all using Pentium CPUs, the systems don't have any hardware in common at all. Two are laptops which previously were absolutely no-no with NC 4.2.x, but now they handle D2X NEFs with ease. The stationary machines are single- or dual-CPU and they run 4.3 very fast and efficiently. For example, opening a D2X NEF now takes about 3 secs, and that includes reading the file over the network. With 4.2.1, opening the D2X NEF took up to 30 secs, and just zooming into the file meant NC would claim up to 1.5 GB just to redraw the display.

 

Well, it could just be time for me to upgrade. I have a 2.26 GHz Pentium 4 with 1 GB of RAM. A D2X image takes 20 seconds to load and 10 seconds to update the histogram after using the exposure slider (when I'm at 100% view).

 

Hi James,

Can you show me how to disable the hyper-treading?
BillT

 

Hi James,

Can you show me how to disable the hyper-treading?


BillT

 

To disable hyper-threading, you need to go into your bios and modify the parameter that configures hyperthreading. There's no real way in the OS that you can do it. Windows will automatically recognize that HT is turned off and configure itself accordingly.