The current recommendation I have is one of the new nVidia GeForce cards (preferably the GeForce3). If you can use AGP, there is a big performance win. Running OpenGL (the rendering library) under software will never be acceptable. If you get a video card which has hardware accelerated rendering (and various models can be picked up for as low as $50...although you get what you pay for), then GEM should run very quickly and slowly, even with thousands of polygons per frame.
Later, Mark
============================ = mdanks@stormfront.com = Lead Programmer PS2 = http://www.danks.org/mark ============================
-----Original Message----- From: r.climent [mailto:r.climent@qub.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 9:15 AM To: pd-list Subject: [PD] video card accelerator for PD-Gem
Dear List, Would you recommend / share your experience, using a PCI video card to accelerate PD / Gem + W98 to render images in realtime? Standard SVGA card on a PC seems to be too slow for the needse even running some of the most clever Gem examples in Mark's distribution. Midi is controlled by a Control Freak multislider device by Kenton and the PC can be two different 'fast-enough' Pentium III such as DELL or Siemens.
No audio is required. It runs in a different computer.
I appreciate any help.
Best
Ricardo Climent