Graphics cards

[fxgogo]

I have a g-force 3 mx twinview from Elsa. It runs well on my AMD 1.2 system. I can set it up to runs applications on either monitor as-well. So my suggestion would be something like a G-force 4 mx card. It is cheap and easy. If you want to spend more money, a couple of older full blown g-force 3 cards would be nice as-well

[RickBarrett]

I'd get some sort of GeForce (2,3 or 4) with twinview. We run quite a few of those here in the office (though we don't specifically recommend any cards). Here in the States, a decent GeForce2 twinview can be found for around a $100. They're great gaming cards, too ;)

C4D doesn't rely as heavily on the graphics card as other 3D apps, but you will see a difference in editor performance with a good card. You can quantify the difference using CINEbench - it'll give you the software and OpenGL shading speed of a given system.

HTH,
Rick

[sad]

c4d often crashes when trying to use opengl.

a good graphics card will only increase the speed of the image processing in the viewports. rendering is a cpu-only sport. just for the interested (don't wanna play the big-guy).

sad

[fxgogo]

Sad

My open gl works fine, Cinema 4D is rock solid when using it, I think you might have a problem on your end. Anyone else having open gl problems?

[shoutaway]

hey fxgogo

just to correct..
Geforce 2 Gladiac(MX) not gf3 mx.

I would recommend geforce 3 ti series(200 or 500), which is I have been using and am very satisfied with that.

Cheers mate

[fxgogo]

Ok, so I don't remember my numbers. I still am useful to society..

[LucentDreams]

I suggest waitning a bit and getting the new matrox card. They Have been and still are the best dual display cards on the market outside of highend arm and a leg cards. The new one bosts of some awesome features and Finally proper full OGL support (finally I can use Nendo again once I get it.) I have never had problems wioth using OGL in XL though, but OGL speed isn't great. I am on a 1.2 and the OGL does make it faster, but not much, and with many many textured objects (the tiger) I found for some reason it was getting slower with than without. Rick anyone there that might be able to explain that??? The more textures the bettere off without OGL in XL, why is that you'd think it would be the other way.

[chris_b]

First off, if you are running a Tyan board (Thunder or Tiger) beware
of the GeForce 4 4600 ... in my experience (with current drivers) it is
totally incompatible with Cinema's OGL. Having gone that route, i know
use a Radeon 8500 which although not being the OGL performer that
NVIDIA's are,
is no slouch either. (go to http://www.postforum.com for many posts on
this subject).


My advice :wise:

buy a cheap GeForce (i.e. 2GTS w/ softquadro) to hold you over until
NVIDIA and ATI announce their new GPU's in August -- purported to be the
next giant step in hardware acceleration. By then, we should also have
some word on XL8 and whether Cinema's OGL 'issues' have been adressed.
Then you can
decide whether or not to invest in a pro-level card.

::chris_b

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