Thinking of upgrading RAM - Having difficulty creating model of 800+ images

[CanadianOne]

Hi all, I have a fairly beafy system with the GTX 980 graphics card, and 32 GB DDR RAM.

To build a high quality dense cloud, it is taking 15+ hours to process 868 images of a gas plant. (12 MP). Id like to decrease this time so I'm going to purchase new Ram hoping this is the best solution.

I have run into problems before processing other models with the error message "Not Enough Memory"

Id like to start taking upwards of 1000-1500 images for large sites.

Here is my work flow.

Align photos.

High
Pair preseletion: Disabled - I have chosen Generic for faster processing will this decrease the quality significantly?
Key point limit: 40000
Tie point limit: 1000

Build Dense Cloud

Quality High
Depth Filtering: Mild ( as I want to be able to see a flare stack and cell tower.. if that makes sense?) Or should I have it as agressive.


Build Mesh

Arbitrary
Dense
High

Interpolation: Enabled.

Build Text

Generic
Mosaic
4096 X1

If theres anything I should do differently, Id appreciate it. I am waiting on my results as the high quality version is still processing... I ran the mode at a medium dense cloud setting and already have seen many imperfetions.

[shaav@hotmail.de]

To build a high quality dense cloud, it is taking 15+ hours to process 868 images of a gas plant. (12 MP). Id like to decrease this time

You will need more GTX 980.

[CanadianOne]

To build a high quality dense cloud, it is taking 15+ hours to process 868 images of a gas plant. (12 MP). Id like to decrease this time

You will need more GTX 980.

Wrong, I just got more RAM and that helped significantly.

And there are many here on the forums who have built models considering of thousands of images and they have less of a powerful built PC compared to mine...

[shaav@hotmail.de]

That's weird. I made a total different experience. For one project I have aligned more than 500 pictures (12MP) and I had no problem at all to do the dense point cloud with only 8GB of RAM. It feels like, the one and only time when you need lots of RAM, is when you do the Mesh.