#Video Driver won't work
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I just purchased Media Visions's Pro Graphics 1024 Local Bus card and have
spent the last 24 hours determining the 500 or so configurations that do not
work. I was wondering if anyone owning this card is successfully running 3D
Studio. I have the what are supposably the latest drivers and it runs fine in
Windows. But getting anything other than 320 by 200 in AniPro is impossible.
3D Studio won't run at all with this card. It seems to be the only card
missing from the list for Vibrant Graphics. I think I made a really bad choice
here, and what makes it worse is that the store will not take it back. (bring
on the violins)
Is the card VESA compliant? If so, do you have to run a special program to
activate the VESA functionality of the card?
If this is the case, you need to run that small program before 3DS or AAPRO,
then select the VESA driver option from the Vibrant configuration in 3DS and
the Screen Size from the Configure menu in AAPRO.
Jh
Please excuse my igorance of somthing that's probably very obvious to most
others. The Media Vision Pro Graphics 1024 is a Vesa Local Bus card. Does
this mean that it's Vesa compliant?
<Does this mean that it's Vesa compliant?>
No, not necessarily. Look through the card's manual to see any reference to the
VESA modes that the card may support or if there is a VESA TSR that needs to be
loaded in order to activate the VESA fucntionality(VESA this, VESA that…<g>).
I'm sure Media Vision incorporated VESA compliant modes in their card. Lastly,
I believe Media Vision is on CompuServe. Maybe drop by their forum and ask
about VESA compliant features of their card.
Jh
I've put your Media Vision Pro Graphics 1024 VLB card on the 3D Studio
wishlist.
Have you figured out how to put it into VESA mode, so that you can configure
3DS VIBCFG for a VESA Compatibles selection? Even though you've got a VESA
local bus, it is a separate standard than VESA compliant. You might have to
run a TSR or something as Jeremy suggests.
Yes, I configured 3DS VIBCFG for a VESA compatible selection and tried
running it with no drivers, with my old driver and then with the
driver that came with the card, but was unable to run 3DS at all in
either configuration. I took the card back today and have
re-installed my old VGA, 256K card. Which brings up the question (if
you are allowed to offer an unbiased answer): what is one or more of
the most powerful/easy to install graphics cards for 3DS? Lets
assume price is not a consideration (it sorta is, depending on what I
get for the bucks… you know?) Reality is, I can spend up to $1500
or so if I have to, but I would like to know what the "best" is. Or
at least a line-up of the best. I read lots of reviews, but the
reviewers arent coming from the perspective of using 3D Studio.
Stephen,
I'm surprised I don't see a lot of answers from folks to your "what is the best
card" question – you should rephrase your question by another fresh message
with a title like "Best video card for 3DS?". We in Product Support are aware
that Diamond and Matrox get a lot of kudos (ATI may be having problems with
slow loading and switching from Materials Editor to 3D Editor, for example)
with 3D Studio). Matrox cards occasionally get a bad report for non-3D Studio
performance. Diamond seems to make fast cards and drivers.
The list of supported cards in our VIBLST.ZIP file might be a starting point
for choosing a card. I know there are good cards out there but are too recent
for 3D Studio support.
Maybe he should rephrase it to "What is the least worst card?" <g>
– Jack
Very well said, Jack. Very well said!
Stephen,
Try the Diamond StealthPro64 PCI with 4MB – we can get it to you for about
$440. I'm trying out a Number Nine GXE64 PCI this week – I'll try and post the
results.
Matt / AM Labs
Matt,
Just last night I purchased the Diamond SpeedStar Pro (VLB) for $120.
Probably not as fast, but it is a lot cheaper and hopefully I can get
it to run with 3DS. I saw the Steath64 at the store as well, but I
don't have PCI. I changed the Vibrant drivers, but still having
trouble. Seems 3DS doesn't want to load if I've already loaded a
mouse driver.
Stephen,
>> I saw the Steath64 at the store as well, but I don't have PCI. <<
FWIW, there is a version of the Stealth 64 in VLB flavour.