MR of maya 6-7

[dotTom]

Exactly the same as for Maya 6.5. I've been banging on version 7 for just over a day and I can't say I notice its CPU or memory profile being significantly (or indeed any) different.

[CoolBird]

hi well here is the thing i want to know what is the video card that would work with mr, because i have this old g-force 4 mx420 and when i try render like a little ball using mr my maya frezes.

[dotTom]

Very odd. Since Mental Ray is to the best of my knowledge a pure software renderer, so your GPU should be largely irrelevant at this point.

[Lyr]

No, you can use your video card to accellerate some rendering options in mental ray. For instance shadow map generation.

[CoolBird]

wat would be the problem then? i uapdated the new video driver an it still the same.

[dotTom]

No, you can use your video card to accellerate some rendering options in mental ray. For instance shadow map generation.

Damn, you're absolutly correct :) , this from the Maya 7 online help:

"mental ray 3.3 and later support hardware rendering. Hardware shading refers to leveraging hardware graphics acceleration boards installed in PCs or workstations, available from vendors such as NVIDIA, ATI, 3Dlabs, Matrox, SGI, Sun, and others, that can draw 3D geometry at very high speed. This document uses the term ``hardware'' to refer to 3D graphics hardware..."

Back to school for me today.

[CoolBird]

so the problem is my video card?

[cpan]

i doubt it is the video card causing mray to freeze... If your viewport works well then the video card works... so this isn't the problemo:thumbsup:

try to reinstall windowze... maybe this is the problem who knows... or maybe u disabled page file?

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