#Ani Pro 1.3 video driver
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I recently had the experience of flying across Canada to a trade show to find
that my ANI PRO 1.3 presentation would not run on a notebook computer due to
video driver incompatibility. I understand that this has been a problem with
autodesk products. Does anyone know (they are not responding to my emails) if
there have been any further improvements in this area – ie more video drivers
available to make ANI PRO compatible with the majority of systems out there? If
not I will be looking around for other animation software.. I can't afford
these types of stress producing breakdowns!
thanks
Hi Ron,
Ani Pro works extremely well with almost any card that provides VESA support.
Most graphics cards today also ship with VESA support coded into their BIOS
or with drivers loaded at boot time. The problem is that many users do not
understand what VESA is and if the card provides proprietary drivers for ACAD
or windows they use those without ever enabling the VESA modes.
My solution is to call ahead and find out what kind of graphics card the site
has and whether they can determine if they have VESA support enabled. Of
course the majority of people when asked about their video configuration say,
"It's in color and the screen is X" by Y"!" <sigh> So as a backup I carry a
number of VESA drivers with me.
There is a Universal VESA driver on this forum and in the GRAPHSUPPORT forum
that supports many different video cards. You can also visit the forums
sponsored by card and chipset makers, many of them are happy to let you
download their VESA drivers. Finally, in the IBMHW forum you can find drivers
that provide VESA support for PS/1 systems that use built-in XGA video.
The key is to get into VESA mode and nearly every graphics card manufacturer
provides a way to support it. Unfortunately many end users do not know how or
why to turn it on.
That said, I hope that any future releases of Ani Pro do have better chipset
and VESA mode detection. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have something like the
3DS in-line drivers for Ani Pro?
Steven
Steven,
Thanks for a very detailed and accurate answer to Ron's question. I will
forward your wishlist about in-line drivers to the product manager of AAPRO.
-Brian
Another option is to find a collection of VESA drivers. The game Links
386 ships with an archive of virtually every VESA TSR available. The only
other option is to bring your own equipment… remember, that's always
safest…
Try calling PANACEA for their PANAMATE driver