Re: Emergency help needed please.... Display card recomendation???

Its easy dude... Graphics card helps with the preview. If you're going to
make complex scenes and expect to have any degree of fluid control over them
in the layout; you need a beefy graphics card.

When it comes to actually rendering those scenes; the graphics card is
irrelevant.

- Chris


"Mark Dunakin" <md@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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No replies... from anyone on this???
Cuz I'd be curious as to how much a graphics card really could affect
things with LW,
as I was always under the impression that LW couldn't make use of any
external cards?

Thanx..........................................md :)


Mark Dunakin wrote:

Tesselator wrote:

DarkScience wrote:


...However, you probably won't notice too much of a
speed boost with Lightwave since its OpenGL is more CPU dependent than
anything.




Not really true any more. That did USED to be the case but in 8.5 and
even moreso
in the up coming 9 series the GPU will be heavily used. My
Fx5900-Plain as with ALL
of the Fx5xxx cards will just NOT be fast enough for a super smooth
expirience. That
said, the Ti4xxx series will actually be faster in LW than the Fx5xxx
cards!

My 7800GS is a HUGE speed increase over the 5900's ability to display
the new pixel
shaders! An SLI setup would rock even harder! And If I had the new
buss architecture
(GS is an AGP card) whoa screeeeming!!

Lightwave not using the GPU is a thing of the past... Even wireframe
display now benifits
from a faster card! While I still don't recomend the Quadro for LW
only operation anyone
buying a card will definately be wanting at least a 7800. Twin 6800s
would be nice but
twin 7900s would be allot nicer.

Let only your budget be the deciding factor.

While we are on the subject of display cards check this out Jeff:

www.plastk.net :D :D :D :D


Whoa!
That thing is awesome!!!
I couls see playing my Half Life games and other similar genre on
something like that.
Could get lost for hours on end!

So, my 7900 is actually allowing LW to make use of it?
I keep having friends suggesting other cards to me, but I always tell
them taht they won't work with LW.
But now you got me thinking that I too am out of date with what can be
done with LW and display cards?
What I am curious about is, and always tell people that LW can't take
advantage of, is those cards
that do the rendering for you, this can't be true for LW, right?
Those are more for CAD programs that can take advantage of those sorts of
things, correct?
Or am I way out of date?

Anyway, thanx and so far, my new card rocks with LW and is actually the
best card
I've ever had that works fantastic with both LW and my video games and I
run
things with every setting I can find and nothing seems to slow it down
yet :)

My base settings are 1280x1024 as I can go higher, but I like this rez
since it's compfrotable for me.
But, I can have all the settings in the LW Display panel set and rotate
objects, scenes around like nothing but a cube!
Too cool!

Thanx for that link, I'm sending it to my gaming bud who I know wll get a
kick out of that, since he's always
setting up more and more complex systems that are coming closer and
closer to that setup in that scene there.

............................md :)





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