#video cards
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Can anyone give me a suggestion as to what video card is supported by 3DS and
World Builder? I am in the process of building another system to net to my
present one and I am having difficulties weeding my way through literature,
which is full of promise, and hardware, which is full of compromise. I am
willing to go as high as $800, maybe higher if the card is worth it. If there
is anyone who is presently running a system with both 3DS and WB, and is having
few to no conflicts with their video cards, I would greatly appreciate some
insight.
TIA,
charles
Charles,
I use a 4meg ATI Pro Turbo and its fine, but I think I would get a 4meg Diamond
Stealth 64 Video VRAM or the Diamond Viper Video VRAM card. They both have
acceleration to 30fps for AVI files. The ATI doesn't. Just make sure its 4meg
so you can get 1024×768 at 24 bit color.
World Builder may or may not have a problem with the 24 bit part of the
program. Digimation is looking at it now. I can't get it to run on my Pentium
but the 16 bit program is great! Saving TGA files is no prob. They're still 24
bit.
Just a suggestion from experience…
If you're going to buy Diamond make sure you or someone
you know has seen one doing what you want to do first…
Don't believe the advertising or manuals that come with the card.
Drivers seem to be a serious problem for this company.
-john-
Hi John,
That is the point of this inquiry. I would like feedback from people actually
using 3DS and WB with a medium to high end video card. Preferably with little
to no problems. What video card do you use and with what programs? Are you
experiencing any conflicts with drivers in 3DS and/or WB?
TIA
charles
Hi Charles
I'm sure my story is NOT typical but I have been trying to get a respnse
from Diamond for some time in their area here and so have a lot of
people about a lot of Diamond cards by the looks of things. Try
scanning the message areas in GO DMNDONLINE.
I bought a Diamond Stealth 64 about 10 months ago and made the store
salesman open the package to prove it worked with OS/2. According to the
manuals it did.. There was even software droivers for it.
Needless to say it didn't even install. Eventually I had to write to Diamond
(I'm in the UK) to get any help I could. They were quite quick to supply
drivers (From Amsterdam) but they dont work at all in True colour
at 800×600 and throw flic data all over the screen at 640×480. I still cant
use truecolour under OS/2 with this card.
Under Windoze it's a great card. No complaints at all. Unfortunately I'm not
prepared to run Microsoft OS/s any more.
Thats a Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM 2Mb… Needless to say it runs (for example 3D
studio fine under OS/2 but just dont try swapping it out to another task, only
works when it feels like it.) Under Dos 3DS works fine.
Hope that's some help… I do reccomend GO DMNDONLINE to get a feel for their
other cards.
-john-
John,
The only reason I would switch to the Diamond is because of Premiere. It won't
run with the ATI card. Adobe knows it, ATI knows it, and they're working on
it…
The reviews say the Stealth Video is good. Opinion?
Hi Mark…
I've no experience of Premier I'm afraid.. and my experience of Diamond
is only what I've already put up here.
I have noticed that software houses in all fields have been
(to be polite) "falling over" over the last couple of years when it comes to
supporting hardware. Personally I believe it has to do with the rather
odd notion that you can write stuff in high level languages…
Anyway…. The only advice I can offer is to fall back on… Just make sure you
or someone you trust has seen the particular setup you want working
in the way you want to use it. In the UK that usually means irritating the
dealers and traveling miles for demonstrations of very simple things…
Assuming the dealers can be bothered (It's like a third world country over
here)….
Trust your eyes is all I can say.
-john-
Thanks for the reply Mark.
I don't necessarily need a board with digital video capabilities unless it just
comes with the board, because I am getting a PVR with its daughter card.
I am a bit confused about the second part of your reply, "World Builder …."
Are you saying you have WB and it doesn't run with 24 bit or that you have
heard it does not run with 24 bit? You "can't get it to run on my Pentium…."
Is the "it" referring to WB, your ATI running in 24 bit, and/or WB and the ATI
in 24 bit?
I apologize for being so picky but these little problems are always the ones
that end up being the bamboo shoots under your fingernails.
Once again, thank you for the original reply and if you feel like replying to
this then TIA.
charles
No Prob!
Ok, WB right now won't run in 24 bit with my ATI card, a Pro Turbo (Mach 64).
Digimation is looking at the problem. They say they have that card and it runs
fine for them. Its great in 16 bit and the TGA output files are 24 bit so
output is unaffected.
I tried WB on two different P100s and the problem appears to be the WB 24 it
program, not the hardware.
Hope this helps. All in all I've been real happy with the ATI cards.
Bye!