Hi there, 1) Is there a list of graphics cards that are supported by Vue 4 Professional? 2) I am planning to buy MSI GeForce4 TI 4200 128MB. I face many problems with my ATI with XSI 3.5. Any idea, whethere that geforce4 ti 4200 can work with Vue 4 Professional properly. I hope Vue 4 can recognized it and no opengl problems, and no crashing of course. Any help please? Thanks. Regards, Chua Wen Ching :p

These are my systems specs I am by no means an expert on systems however. Operating system: Windows XP Pro CPU (type & freq.): P4 2.4 mghz RAM & HD space: 1.00 GB of Ram 80gig HD space Video board: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 I also asked Steve Bell this question and this was his answer hope this may help. Regards. Question What is the Ideal system? by sbell I'd recommend a dual Athlon system. No need to go for the very latest. You can usually save a significant amount of money if you give up on a few hundreds of MHz. Keep in mind that a dual system will render almost twice as fast as a single proc system. Go for a lot of fast RAM. 1GB at least. GeForce 4 based board should be good. I don't think it's worth going for the latest and greatest video boards. It won't change the way you work all that much (IMO). Hope that helps.

Okay. I should read the forums before i buy a graphic card. Does dual also similar to a single processor with hyper threading? Like my Intel P4 2.6c GB Hyper Threading enabled. I would like to upgrade my memory soon. But can your machine runs smoothly with Vue 4 Professional? Is your processor a hyper threading enabled? Thanks a lot.

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To be honest it maybe best for you to contact E-on support so you can get the correct answers to these important questions. Renderosity is a good place to get opinions for sure as everone seems to have one. To get specific answers before you make any investments contacting the sorce maybe your best bet. Regards. http://www.e-onsoftware.com/Support/index.php

Well i would prefer opinions from the crowd. That is what i am looking for.

Well good luck in your efforts. I am sure you can find plenty of opinions here.

Being an AMD user, all I can report from is other's input and the problems that have come up. (1)The GeForce 4 card and VuePro get along very well, as long as you are aware that there is a -lot- of inconsistency with gamecard drivers and OpenGL implementation. I have the GF4-4400 and the latest Nvidia drivers, and VuePro handles OpenGL just fine. Your experience with what driver works best could vary, due to things like motherboard chipset and AGP driver, installation order of system drivers, etc. Once you have a good combination, be sure to save those driver versions so that you have them. (2)VuePro -is- coded to utilize hyperthreading, but this does =NOT= equate to two processors. It's a nice little hardware trick that allows more than one process thread to run by hijacking the pipelines in the processor that are not being used. Your OS may report that it -sees- two processors, but you only have one core there. And more importantly, you only have one L2 and L3 cache, one memory controller, and one set of linked DIMM slots. The dual chip motherboards perform so well due to the fact that each processor can be doing its thing, and not have to fight with another processor for memory bandwidth and cache space; hyperthreaded P4's have to share that one pool of resources between the multiple threads running, so it is not as good as a true dual board. There is benefit if everything is coded to use HT; (In that respect it is like MMX and 3DNOW! ; if your app doesn't use either, then there is no benefit in having those pipelines in the cpu; they just sit there), but you will not see the kind of performance that the ad copy hints you might.

Okay. Anyway i will use vue with my current computer and will upgrade my memory soon and have a bigger hard disk. I will save up some money and consider dual processors. Thanks a lot.