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From: mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson)
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Subject: Re: Toasters in A3000's
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Date: 29 May 91 15:26:43 GMT
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In article <18042@venera.isi.edu> schur@venera.isi.edu (Sean Schur) writes:
>In article <3950@beguine.UUCP> Viet.Ho@bbs.acs.unc.edu (Viet Ho) writes:
>>at least you get 18MBs 
>
>Don't get too excited, especially those of you interested in Lightwave.
>The current Lightwave software does NOT recognize memory over the standard
>9MB allowed in a 2000. If you look at the amount of memory available
>it will certainly show that you have 18MB, but the maximum number of
>polygons allowed in a scene does not expand.


The maximum number of polygons that LightWave currently supports is 32767.
This is not a function of whether or not it recognizes the extra memory
but that the internal polygon/point counters were done with 16 bit
signed integers. Allen is working on fixing this but he said it is not
a minor change. If you want to take advantage of the extra memory above
9M, load in bunches of 24bit image maps. I have not done this personally
(my 2500 limits me to 9M), but I am quite confident it will work.
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