Kristta opened this issue on Aug 26, 2004 ยท 31 posts
svdl posted Fri, 27 August 2004 at 1:41 PM
Resolution wise? My Ti4200 can go to 1920x1440 at 75 Hz, and 2048x1536 at 60 Hz, and mind you, that card is almost two years old! The Radeon 9600 XT also goes up to 2048x1536, at 75 Hz. My CRTs cannot handle that. I think a "low end" Geforce FX card is more than enough, both speed and resolution wise, to handle Poser requirements. You only need the more expensive 3D cards when playing games. I've got an older machine (Athlon XP 2200, 768 Mb RAM) with a RivaTNT2 chipset and 64 Mb RAM, still pretty good (and the card was less than $30!), but the maximum resolution is definitely lower and Poser is definitely clunkier on that box. I do not know of a current video card with a better maximum resolutino than 2048x1536, at least not a consumer video card. The specialist cards for the CG industry can do better - much better, I've heard of resolutions of up to 12000x9000!! - but are simply not affordable. And you'll need a monitor that can handle that resolution. 2048x1536 already requires a high-end 21" CRT! My 19" CRTs stop at 1600x1200 and 1440x1080.
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