GDI or Direct 3D?

[Victorypoint]

PS – I found the following in the Adobe Knowledgebase (https://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/331262.html). Perhaps it could explain why your ATI video card doesn’t perform well with Direct3D.

” Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 is designed to take advantage of display cards with accelerated GPUs. If you are having playback issues, then make sure you use the correct Desktop Display Mode that corresponds with your display card:

— Compatible: This setting offers the lowest performance but is appropriate for display cards that do not fully support Direct 3D.

— Standard: This is the default setting and is appropriate for video cards that support Direct 3D version 9.

— Accelerated GPU Effects: The availability of this setting requires that the display card support Pixel Shader 2.0, Vertex Shader 1.1, Direct 3D version 9, and have 64 MB of onboard VRAM. This setting is used to provide accelerated performance on specific Premiere Pro 2.0 effects including Motion, Opacity, Fast color correction, Cross dissolve, and Proc amp. It also provides improved support for color space conversion and playback in the Multi-camera monitor.”

-AJ

[Tim Bond]

FWIW – Agree with the videoguys recomendations. A note on GeForce 6’s – only the 6800’s have hardware supprt for directX 9 so i wouldn’t buy anything lower as you’ll gain very little over a 5 series. A vanilla 6800 is about