enhanced openGL / Cg or C for Graphics

[Adam Trachtenberg]

Pretty much every modern graphics card supports enhanced OGL in Cinema. You could save yourself some money by buying an advanced gaming card instead of the quadro, which won’t perform any better in Cinema. If you have other applications that would take advantage of it that’s another story.

Generally speaking the ATI cards are a bit faster than nVidia, but their consumer cards don’t support dual planes which can speed up the viewport if you have a scene with many objects and you’re only moving a few at a time.

[John Hammond]

Thanks for the advice.

I have realised that I was being a bit stupid.

I do have enhanced open GL currently. I just hadn’t realised that I have to turn it on in the preferences as well as in the viewport/display options.

Just had a play – nice to see real time coloured shadows!

As for upgrading – I am surprised to hear that top end Quadro cards won’t really help C4D… what’s the deal there?

I’m sure this is a whole subject in it’s self that I need to learn about – do you know of any good resources / google keywords to get me started?

o.h. PS apart from C4D it’s mainly the Adobe creative suite that I use, mostly AE, then PS / AI..

Many thanks for your response

[Adam Trachtenberg]

My understanding is that the Quadro boards only deliver a real benefit if application-specific drivers have been written for them, and neither nVidio nor Maxon have done so.

Here’s a great Cinema benchmark site that should give you some idea what different cards will do. Note that cpu speed makes a big difference and some of the listed machines are overclocked.

https://www.3dfluff.com/mash/cinebench/top.php

[John Hammond]

Ah I see. I’ve been rooting around in my Nvidia control panel and in ‘3D manager’ I can change ‘global settings’ to ‘Maxon cinema 4D’. There are also options for 3dsMax, combustion or a while load of other apps.
I’ll have to have a read around to see what this is actually doing.
Many thanks,
John