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Subject: What's Better For Vid Card Memory - Quality or Quantity?

redtiger7 opened this issue on Jun 26, 2008 · 7 posts
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redtiger7 ( ) posted Thu, 26 June 2008 at 8:27 PM · edited Thu, 13 February 2025 at 8:26 AM

When considering buying a video card to use Poser 7 on, what would be better to have: A larger amount of memory (1gb compared to 512mb) or faster memory( DDR3 compared to DDR2)?

Gareee ( ) posted Thu, 26 June 2008 at 8:42 PM

More memory.. ddr3 costs FAR more then ddr2, and offers little performance boost for the cost involved.

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.

markschum ( ) posted Thu, 26 June 2008 at 9:26 PM

Poser will benefit from more system memory . It doesnt use the video card much , except for opengl preview , and not at all for rendering.  The amount of video card memory doesnt matter very much.

Gareee ( ) posted Thu, 26 June 2008 at 10:13 PM

video card memory IS used though for the opengl preview.. my preview looks closer to the final render when I upgraded to a card with more memory...

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.

aeilkema ( ) posted Fri, 27 June 2008 at 5:18 AM

I totally agree with Gareee. More video card memory is very helpful for OpenGL preview. When your working with multiple figures, larges scenes, a good number of props/items in scene then more video card memory is very benificial. I upgraded from 256Mb to 512Mb and OpenGL is working smoother now and as Gareee already stated the preview looks closer to the final render.

With 256Mb at times a number of items got grayed in OpenGL due to lack of memory on the video card, now all shows up correctly.

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ashley9803 ( ) posted Fri, 27 June 2008 at 8:30 AM

On the subject of opengl preview, I was having some problems with the preview window freezing so I switched to SreeD, and didn't notice much difference at all, except that the freezing stopped.
What's the advantage of openGL? Excuse my ignorance on this matter.

markschum ( ) posted Fri, 27 June 2008 at 9:50 AM

opengl is very fast. its done partially in hardware . Its very fast .

I normally dont work in texture preview mode , because opengl is very hardware and driver dependant. I run a render to check textures and then  run the final render at full size and with all the bells and whistles turned on .

For me a video card is near the bottom of the list for upgrades. I would add system memory because that will give a nice boost to rendering . I can say a nvidia 6200 gt card works nicely with poser, but mainly for the opengl. I had to upgrade to get another application working .

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