• Boris FX Particle Illusion

  Video Grahics card for PI

  Posted by Greg Paterson on May 19, 2005 at 4:01 am

  I am about to get a new AGP video card for my system.
  I am hoping for advice on what parameters of video cards maximize the performance of PI:
  GPU, Memory size, DDR? 128 bit 256 bit etc etc.

  Thanks

  GReg

  Greg Paterson replied 21 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Alan Lorence

  May 19, 2005 at 12:45 pm

  pIllusion uses basic OpenGL features, so you don’t need an advanced GPU, but faster is always better. If you look at game benchmarks, that’s a pretty good measure of how it will work in pIllusion.

  More memory on the card is always better too: I’d suggest at least 128 MB, but 256 would be better.

  I haven’t used ATI cards except in my Macs, so I can’t report on how they work (although there are some pretty basic OpenGL features that ATI OS X drivers don’t support — like drawing antialiased lines). I’ve used NVidia-based cards in all of my PCs since my original TNT.

  Alan.
  wondertouch
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  Greg Paterson

  May 19, 2005 at 12:59 pm

  Thanks Alan,

  That be the case I will stick with my Nvidia 5700 256 Meg for the time being.

  Thanks

  Greg

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