According to the manual it requires at least 16 cores at 2.4GHz, My PC has 24cores at 2.8 thatGHz can go up to 3.2GHz.
According to the manual, the graphics card is optional so it should work, but i get unusable framerates, making the scanner simply useless to use with my machine.
Is this just unoptimized code on Revoscan, meaning it will get better in the near future or should i just sell the scanner and cut my losses
UPDATE: The software is ignoring one of the CPUs
They also said 10th gen for Intel. The X5660 is nearly 15 years old! The GPU is also old enough that even if GPU acceleration were available, it won’t work with it.
Even my Threadripper 2950x struggles with it a little. The more recent CPUs have significantly higher memory bandwidth and single core performance. And there are some parts of the software running only a couple of cores at best.
You don’t have 24 cores. You have 12. 24 threads. SMT is not a core.
There is room for improvement in the software. And I expect we will see some of that soon. I suspect it’s unlikely that your machine will be able to run this scanner in the near future though.
That may have lots of cores but it’s a 14 year old CPU and thus doesn’t support many of the CPU optimisations that Revoscan for MetroX requires. You need a CPU of at least 11th gen ideally (yours is 4th gen).
You actually only have 12 cores there though. They are hyperthreaded to give 24 logical threads.
The X5660 is a 6-core CPU.
I get messages popping up as i start a scan ( lower right side of the screen ) saying similar things… yet i still get 46fps in x-lines mode and everything seems to work fine.
I have an i7-11800H and RTX 3050ti, and in order for me to get the preview to work i have to unselect ‘gpu accelerated rendering’ to get revo scan metroX to show a preview and actually work.
edit- when you unselect ‘gpu accelerated rendering’ restart the software if it doesn’t work initially
I guess it’s a suck-it-and-see scenario. He says the performance is unusable for him.
I have a spare rig that doesn’t meet the requirements but it works just fine in full field mode. It grinds to a halt in laser modes though.
Nope, no hyperthreading here I have a dell R5500 server with two phisicall Xenon X5660 processors
Will try that, see if it changes anything, but probably i’m better off selling the metro and getting the raptor, not quite interested in investing 2K on a new pc just for this scanner
Thanks for that tip Master, I get 8fps but at least i can scan something instead of having the software hang. Maybe then it will work on my i7 laptop also.
It’s working! 
I can scan X Parallel but seems auto-turntable just freezes the system tho
That might be due to the CPU architecture, and the software being optimized for newer hardware ( as I think was previously mentioned). Looks like it’s still working for ya though!
I’ve done a few scans of a black car today and so far everything’s working fine. The CPU isn’t going much higher then 20-30% when it is fusing cloud point data, I’d have guessed it would go higher ( scanning in crossed lines mode pins it to 100%) and the gpu is at 0% for the post processing of cloud point data
I tested using i7 8th generation
It still scan on my win tablet so please check your system.
The GPU is not used for processing in this software and it is exclusive only needed for scanning using Laser mode.
Future GPU acceleration will be also exclusive only for scanning and not for processing .
