Below I quoted from a search I made here; anyway, I'm going to buy a new video card; Pci-E (new Mobo already set..)so ..after I paste the specifications of a new card I would like to have. Problem is that I'm not sure which one is better for my use..thanks for a good advise guys. I do need it.I'm in a jungle of produts and lost! Quote from old messages:'In order to use video acceleration, the app needs to repackage its texture, vertex and polygon information in a format friendly for the card (or interface eg. OpenGL) to use. In Poser's case the texture maps are often much bigger than in other apps, and the vertex geometries will typically change on a frame by frame basis, so would need constant recalculation and loading.' I use Poser6, Photoshop CS and Painter 7 mostly... Now: From the specs can you tell me which one will be more appropriated? Prices are 'round the same as 256 MB cards only the 256 Mb have DDR3...maybe more pipeslines...too. Those are the specifications of one: -------------------------------- Model Name GC-RX700(PRO)G2-E3 ASIC RV410 Core Frequency 400MHz Memory Size 512MB Memory Type DDR2 Memory Bus 128-bit Interface PCI Express x 16 D-Sub Yes TV-Out S/HDTV-out DVI Yes Video-In N/A Cooling Fansink + memroy heatsink --------------------- other:RADEON X1600 PRO Specifications RADEON X1600 core 512MB DDR2 / PCI Express x16 / CrossFire Support (PCI-E model only) Microsoft DirectX 9.0c / OpenGL 2.0 acceleration Avivo Technology 3D Graphics Resolution of 2560x1600 Max TV-Out Smoothvision HD + Adaptive AA Vido acceleration of :MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV9, VC-1, and H.264 -----------------------------------------------------------

What chipset on your new mainboard? I have the impression that mainboards with an nVidia chipset tend to play nicer with nVidia graphics cards. I've had trouble with OpenGL support on an ATI Radeon 9600 Pro, never with an nVidia card (Ti4200, 6800 LE, 7800 GTX). That X1600 has some sweet specs! Though a monitor that can handle 2560x1600 would be very, very expensive, I'm afraid.

I was under the impression Poser doesn't use hardware acceleration . IMO, the cards are overkill . Better to up your RAM to 4 GB instead . If I play 3D games, I'd go for NVidia . I got a old Radeon which required driver update to work for some games . I also understand games are tested with NVidia first and Radeon second . If I watched movies, I'd go for the Radeon . I'm salivating from looking at the specs . Someone please get me a towel .

my pc was build by me; I have today an Intel Pentiun 4-833FSB = 3.40GHZ;into a Asus P5VD-1 (slot 775/Intel LGA775 Pentium 4 CPUDual-Core CPU VIA PT880 Ultra Dual-Channel DDR400/333PCI Express & AGP8X combo solutionSATA with RAID 0, 1, JBOD) and running with my old AGP INNO NVIDIA 5600FX 128mb...using as well two 17' monitors('cause I can't afford those HUGE ones..)and my screen resolution is 1280 by 1024 pixels in each one..in case you're talking about that..can't find out which chip has in it...but I believe Asus is working with Ati X series..not sure.
OH!!! yeah! you're right..can't got to 2560x1600 resolution..gives me 'the out of range'...so I can't go for that right? But if I use the actual resolution I do today would be ok I guess..still I'm missing nothing in it's perfomance.. I have to search again for a more suitable to what I use today as softtware..since was already and again told here that Poser does not use any of those NEW TECH in the videos cards..have you any real good advise on that? now..
Since Nov.2004 I'm trying to buy a new video card and still has not yet done...ca'nt decide if I go for a old model Radeon, that today is quite cheap or those X series that will give me more speed (PCI E)in the rendering/ huge files in Photoshop etc..

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Poser 6 is the first version of poser to use hardware accelleration for the general display via OpenGL. IT is not an awesome implementation of open GL, and gaming based information is not applicable in this situation as hardware does not factor into the final rendering. That said, note that it was Nvidia that worked closely with both E-Frontier and DAZ3D in the creation of their respective programs, and that may influence your decision once you are aware that Nvidia and ATI both implement OpenGL support in different ways. In short -- it'll work no matter what card you use. You'll likely have fewer problems with the Nvidia card. Also, don't think you will gain any great benefit from a card with greater ram capability and so forth -- this applies only to the preview. IT has absolutely no effect on shaders, the end result (still or animation), or Ny other aspect of using poser. Just seeing it while you build it. That's all, and it's still even limited there -- shader information isn't displayed. yet...

Buying a good OpenGL graphics card for Poser 6 alone - it would not be worth shelling out extra money. Then again, if you're planning to use other 3D software too (Vue, Max, Blender, whatever), they will almost certainly benefit from good OpenGL support. And in that case, nVidia is the way to go, unless you want to shell out the money for a professional ATI FireGL card (expensive!!!!). Then again, if you have the money for an ATI FireGL, you also have the money for a 3DLabs Wildcat Realizm - and THAT is one fantastic 3D graphics board. Beats both nVidia and ATI. Not cheap, we're talking $800 prices here....