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eFDay

09-07-2002, 11:24 PM

Hello there

Wireframe display in the way i like use it in max 4 sucks badly with all Geforce cards i 've tried so far ;from the 2 to 4.
It' s slow as hell on a 20000 poly model with invisible edges diplayed as doted lines (cpu is a 2000+ athlon).
Anybody knows how to use this kind of display with a decent-workable frame rate ?
Perhaps a quadro4 ?Or special drivers ?

Anyone has already experienced this problem and find a solution?
Again invisible edge as doted lines is a must for me.

Thanks in advance for your help.
eF.

Aldo

09-08-2002, 03:39 PM

... question ...

If someone could help us ... it could be great ... cause I'll buy a new coputer and my last task is the graphic card i should buy :rolleyes:

Aearon

09-08-2002, 04:38 PM

imo it's not the gfx card...it's max

with my current project(145k polys) i get like 1fps in 3dsmax viewports(p4 1.6@2.4 / gf ti4400)

i imported that model to xsi 2.0.1 for a little testing... i got 85fps(vertical sync limit) - that should explain it pretty well, this is all because of good opengl optimization, and max has none of it

go figure, i bet maya also has performance of another dimension compared to max - discreet just needs to pump out a complete rewrite real quick for that and other reasons, they had better skipped 3dsmax5 imo

(btw i still use max because of the awesome poly modeling :D)

UrbanFuturistic

09-08-2002, 05:51 PM

Sorry Fist, but it is the card. Slow-ass wireframe rendering is a weakness recognised even by nVidia, despite their cards otherwise kicking arse, and one of the main things they're working on for their next generation of graphics cards. If peeps want a good card for wireframe I'd recommend waitring for the Radeon 9700 Pro... although I wouldn't place any bets on the stability of the drivers for the first six months.
regards, Paulhttp://homepage.ntlworld.com/odubtaig/smilies/coffee.gif

BrandonD

09-10-2002, 08:31 PM

If you're strictly going for wireframe speed, I'd suggest an Nvidia board running DirectX. From my experience, DirectX wireframe is lightning fast on Nvidia boards. Shaded DirectX and OpenGL is a different story.

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