Topic: Error message when I try to run Lumion

[st_george]

This is what I get when I try to run it:

Device/driver does not support hardware shadow maps

I have Intel dual core 1.8 ghz, 2gb of RAM and Radeon X1600/1650 series 256MB

Do you think the problem is with my graphic card? Is it too weak?

[RAD]

Nvidea Geforce GTX 460 or faster/better.  

[st_george]

sorry I am very lame when it comes to PC hardware.
Thank you for the reply.

So by this "at least 1 gig on board" you mean instead of my 256MB I need 1GB?

[Remko]

512 mb is possible but you'll hit the memory limitation soon.

[st_george]

RAM memory? Or Graphic card memory?

[See3D.be]

Graphics card

[st_george]

Graphics card

thank you for the replies and help.

One more thing: are there minimum graphic card type requirements for both GeForce and ATI?
Which is the minimum GeForce or ATI graphic card I need to buy to run Lumion? Anykind, just it needs to have 512MB of Graphic Card memory?

[Remko]

thank you for the replies and help.

One more thing: are there minimum graphic card type requirements for both GeForce and ATI?
Which is the minimum GeForce or ATI graphic card I need to buy to run Lumion? Anykind, just it needs to have 512MB of Graphic Card memory?

We recommend 1GB Gfx card but Lumion runs with 512MB although you'll need to enable lowmemory mode and at some point it will hit the memory limitation. You won't be able to place too many items or import too big objects. Peformance wise you need a card that can do shader model 3 and is reasonably fast. A GeForce 8800 GTX and up works. I'm not sure what the ATI equivalent is but it should be easy to find. Integrated graphics like Intel does not work.

[st_george]

thank you for the help and tips

[peterm]

Plus see lots of other similar hardware questions on requirements in forum to give further guideance, ie more graphics RAM the better, Nvidia 500 series better than 400 series, all a question of balance with the budget.

[darya]

i have the smae problem but its written: LUMION NEEDS AT MINIMUM A SHADER MODEL 3  CAPABLE GRAPHIC CARD..
what can i do to fix it?

[Morten]

Hi Darya, you basically need a more powerful graphics card.

For simple scenes, you can probably get by with a card that has about 1,500 PassMark points:
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

If you want to use Lumion for slightly more complex scenes, you'll need a card with say, at least 2,500 PassMark points (avoid Quadro and FirePro cards).

And very complex scenes would benefit from a card with at least 3,000 PassMark points.

[Pete Stoppel]

I have a GTX 280 1 gb in my rig and I never selected low memory mode, I had a very heavy model with tons of vegetation using layers as I worked so not to lag. However when I went to movie mode to set up a shot I needed to enable all layers which caused my screens to go dead (I'm guessing it overheated or just crashed the GPU)

Anyway I had to hard close the machine, and let it cool down to get it going again, I tried restarting Lumion but when I tried loading the scene again it crashes every time.

So, what do I do? I should get a newer card with more ram? or install another 280 in SLI?

[Morten]

Another 280 in SLI mode will not help.

Before we continue:

1) Make sure F9 is turned off before loading the scene, so that the trees/plants aren't rendered at the maximum quality level.

2) Press F1 to reduce the editor quality level to 1-star before loading the scene.

3) How much system ram have you got?

4) Are you running Lumion in a 32-bit or a 64-bit version of Windows?

[Pete Stoppel]

I have 12GB ram

I'm running 64 bits.