After two years of excellent service, my GeForce4 Ti4600 graphics card seems to be dying...
I have since been completely unaware of development on the graphics cards front, but since most of my graphics needs are for GEM, I tought I'd ask here if anyone could recommend good recent cards that can drive two CRTs monitors (e.g. TwinView in the NVidia world) and has good openGL acceleration (for GEM performance.)
Many thanks,
- martin
i was told that i shold go for ati cards. http://www.ati.com/products/radeon9800/radeon9800pro/compare.html
right?
Am 17.06.2004 um 17:25 schrieb Martin Dupras:
After two years of excellent service, my GeForce4 Ti4600 graphics card seems to be dying...
I have since been completely unaware of development on the graphics cards front, but since most of my graphics needs are for GEM, I tought I'd ask here if anyone could recommend good recent cards that can drive two CRTs monitors (e.g. TwinView in the NVidia world) and has good openGL acceleration (for GEM performance.)
Many thanks,
- martin
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Martin Dupras wrote:
I have since been completely unaware of development on the graphics cards front, but since most of my graphics needs are for GEM, I tought I'd ask here if anyone could recommend good recent cards that can drive two CRTs monitors (e.g. TwinView in the NVidia world) and has good openGL acceleration (for GEM performance.)
The ATI drivers can't handle one OpenGL or DirectX window spread over two equally-sized screens without a dramatic performance hit. This was what I needed for stereo-vision in GEM. Unfortunatly I bought an ATI Radeon 9600 (without knowing about this issue) because this one (in contrary to NVidia's mid-end) is kept cool with without a fan (noise).
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I have since been completely unaware of development on the graphics cards front, but since most of my graphics needs are for GEM, I tought I'd ask here if anyone could recommend good recent cards that can drive two CRTs monitors (e.g. TwinView in the NVidia world) and has good openGL acceleration (for GEM performance.)
i have a fx5600xt (nvidia) but i get lower result with glxgears :
with my ati 9500 pro : around 5000 FPS
with my fx5600xt : 1300 FPS
on the other side, i don't think that ATI cards support anti-aliasing (FSAA 1,2,4). nvidia does. and finally, i never been able to extend my windows manager to use the other monitor. i've only been able to add a second head (DISPLAY=:0.1). so no 2d or 3d acceleration (XV) on the second head for me.
patrick
hello
i have a fx5600xt (nvidia) but i get lower result with glxgears :
with my ati 9500 pro : around 5000 FPS
with my fx5600xt : 1300 FPS
glxgears is not really meant for benchmarking ... better install quake III :) (half kidding) or see how much you can increase the gemwin fps with the same scene.
on the other side, i don't think that ATI cards support anti-aliasing (FSAA 1,2,4).
they do
nvidia does. and finally, i never been able to extend my windows manager to use the other monitor. i've only been able to add a second head(DISPLAY=:0.1). so no 2d or 3d acceleration (XV) on the second head for me.
ati's fglrx drivers works very well with "big desktop mode" providing gl and xv acceleration.
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