Better video card fro Lightwave?

[pensart]

Nice to hear you switch to the mac :buttrock:
I did the same thing a year ago and i'm very happy about it.

I would suggest to get a geforce titanium if possible, not the mx.
Stay away from the ati since it has alot of driver issues on osx.

Hope this helps out

[Triple G]

Yeah, right now I'd say your best bet for Lightwave on OSX is a GeForce4 Ti, which you can find for around $300 USD (last I looked, it may have come down a bit since then.) ATI cards have some issues with Lightwave and the latest version of OSX (10.2.6). I have a Radeon 8500 hooked up to dual 20" monitors, and it performs very nicely. I stuck with OSX 10.2.4, which by general consensus seems to be the recommended OS for using with Lightwave and an ATI card. Like I said, I'm having no problems with my ATI now that I figured out what the problem was...but it can be a pain if you've got programs whose system requirements are something later than 10.2.4, like Final Cut Pro 4 (which I don't own, so luckily I don't have this problem). That being said, if you've got the choice, I'd probably go with the GF4Ti...at least until ATI gets their issues resolved.

[yuchenpan]

i had this same question a week before and some guy told me to get Gefroce quadro or ti series, i choose ti4800 (asus v8460) due to me budget and it runs smoothly with lightwave on my WINXP. NO PROBLEMS OR ERRORS, yet.
:thumbsup:

http://www.nvidia.com/page/geforce4ti.html

http://www.nvidia.com/page/quadrofx.html

[Triple G]

Well, the OS in question here was OSX, but from my experiences, Nvidia cards seem to work pretty well with Lightwave regardless of operating system. :)

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