Please always make sure that Zephyr is running on a computer with the latest NVIDIA and CUDA software updates (when possible).

3DF Zephyr takes advantage of the CUDA technology, so running Zephyr on a machine with one (or more!) NVIDIA cards is strongly advised. If you are considering an hardware update, make sure to consider:

- adding a SSD drive if you don't own one already

- adding an NVIDIA card
- adding more ram (depending on the size of your datasets)

- using a faster CPU


Disable coloring if you don't need it


If you are only interested in getting a textured model, there is no need for the intermediate steps to compute the color in the point cloud and mesh generation. You can disable coloring from the general application options dialog. You may also right click an element and select "update colors" if you wish to compute them for a specific one.

Use a unified and persistent cache directory


You can also use a unified and persistent cache directory. Please note that this is not the default behaviour, as it will use a lot of available space and you will have to manually clean it.

We strongly suggest you run 3DF Zephyr on a workstation that has a SSD drive. If your windows installation is on a mechanical drive and you have another SSD drive, you may also consider switching the temporary directory on that drive.