#Info for PPC users
24-Jan-95 22:54:56
Sb: #3445-#Info for PPC users
Fm: Jim Jonah 73517,3532
To: Charles Koehl 72212,422
Charles,
The non-AV Pmacs have a High Performance Video display card in the PDS
(processor direct slot). This card comes with 2megs of VRAM which can be
upgraded to 4 megs for about $135 to drive a 21" monitor at millions of colors.
The card is AS FAST as a thunder II GX (at least to me, visually). Thus saving
me from $1500.
My impression would be that the display card shouldn't affect rendering, IF
you do not display the window while rendering! (Steve, is this true?).
Various versions of A:M have had problems with Picts. What format are your
image/transparency maps in?
Try changing them to Targa files, or PCX, and see if this makes a difference.
I hope this helps!
Jim Jonah