Here are some cards from users I know. They have no problem to work with OpenGL. NVIDIA GeForce4 (on Win2000) Radeon 9700 PRO (that's what I have on XP Pro) GeForce 4MX (on XP PRO and Win2000) Maybe other users would like to add Video cards they work with in using OpenGL -and Vue- without problems. Please do NOT add here cards that are not working with Vue and OpenGL. Thanks, Guitta

Radeon 9500 Pro on XP PRO

I have an MSI Nvidia GeForce4 Ti4200 and it works fine. I have seen a difference I think with the latest driver from Nvidia. No problems at all now.

I have a GeForce 4MX on XP Pro. OpenGL works fine, for a while. Then things slow down, movement of objects in windows gets jerky, and eventually the whole thing hangs. I usually turn it on when I really need it, do my thing, then turn it back off. Then no problems. Gebe suggested that I run it only in one window. Haven't tried that yet but will post results when I do. Lin

Nvidia GeForce 4600 XP Pro

I use ATI in my both (old) machine, and Open GL works just fine! Rage Fury Pro (old & very cheap but comes with Open GL full accelaration feature)

shoop3D's System Configuration 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 use Open GL all the time works great for me. Thanks, `shoop PS: looking at the wildcat4 graphics card now from 3dlabs.com. Hmmm kind of spendy but it's on my list.

I most be the only one using onboard 3D graphics. :O How dare I! Intel Integrated 3D Graphics.

Keep in mind that -drivers- can and do determine how well a card works with Vue. And that there have been some significant changes in the OpenGL standard since Vue 4 was coded. Namely the support for things like vertex and pixel shaders, and the changes in previous 'standards' that were required to allow those to work. And that the more that a manufacturer sceams about how hot your games will be, the less likely you will have comatibility with things like graphics programs (and beasts like Max, Lightwave, Maya, etc, also suffer driver disfunction when used with gaming cards).

My new configuration: P4 3GHz Windows XP Pro 1Gb RAM 400Gb disk space (2 hard drives) ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Mitsubishi 22" monitor Just installed Vue on it - working fine and so much faster than my old 450MHz machine.

Another thing to keep in mind, Vue doesn't really support OpenGL like other programs do. For instance, Maya, Lightwave, 3DS, all use OpenGL to it's fullest with a much higher quality of previews, etc. Vue uses OpenGL to it's advantage, but shouldn't be used as a benchmark of what Vue or OpenGL in and of themselves are really capable of. That being said, I use Vue on a Geforce3 in a Mac and a Radeon 8500 in a Windows XP box, both of which work very well.

Vue-4.12 (with all of the latest patches) works great on my system using OGL LightWave-7.5c also works flawlessly on this machine using OGL. Win2K Pro (SP3) PIV 2.4ghz Asus P4PE Mobo 2gig DDR RAM Radeon 9000 Pro On-board Sound Card (Sound Max) On board NIC SCSI-3 controllers (3) & Drives (7)

Working good with an ATI 8500 in my XP box and a Geforce3 in my OSX 10.2.6 box.

Win XP Home (SP1) AMD Athlon 3200 nVidia nForce MoBo On-board Sound Card On board NIC 1GB RAM ATi Radeon 9800 Pro NOTE only got this working after installaing ATi Catalyst driver 6.14.10.6378 and Vue 4.2 beta 3 update. Dale B's absolutely correct: drivers do matter, :-)

Vue4Pro with all latest patches. Works wonderful and long hours!
OpenGL and Hyperthreading.

Win home XP
P4 3 Ghz
1 GB Ram
Radeon 9600 pro

Intel Extreme 3D (Notebook)

NVidia Quadro4 980 XGL 128mb. Seems to work just fine, but then I would expect it to :)

P4 2.8 HTT FSB 800 Dual Channel WinXP Pro SP2 ATI Radeon 9600 PRO Gigabyte 81G100MX Mainboard 1.5 Gb DDR400 (2x256 Siemens, 2x512 Kingston) Samsung SP1614N ATA133 (160 Gb) Latest drivers Vue4 Pro latest patches. OpenGL works fine and fast.

I have XP and the ATI Radeon 9700 Pro and Vue will not work in Open GL on my machine. I know it can be drivers, the environment or any one of a number of things. Since it's not that big a deal, I don't worry about it.

Hm... it's surely a miracle but I have an old (very old) NVidia TNT Riva Mach 64 in my Duron 1300 with 512 MB RAM. I don't know why but it does that Open GL thing. I only had to deactivate that Background draw check box but OpenGL-View works fine. I'm even satisfied with the speed (okay beyond 300 Objekts it would slow down awfully but anything less than that works fine) Morgana

Weird experience. I just updated my drivers, now Vue Pro 4.54-02 (build 272334) complains that my Gigabyte Radeon 9600 Pro isn't compatible anymore. And Vue crashes after about 10 minutes of work with OpenGL. It works fine on my other machine with an Asus GeForce Ti4200 (latest drivers)

Apart from the working or not working, how much faster is rendering with a good card? Is open gl a faster rendering than not open gl?

The actual render does not use OpenGL, so that doesn't make any difference. OpenGL is very useful when setting up the scene, the orthogonal views are displayed with more detail and at higher speed with OpenGL enabled - if it doesn't crash, that is. My new GeForce 6800LE works a lot better than the Radeon9600 Pro, OpenGL is stable and very fast.