I am thinking about a new PC. I can't afford more than $1200 or so and Best Buy has  a Dell with an i7 processor, 8 gigs of RAM, Windows 7 64 bit and an ATI Radeon HD 5770  1 gig graphics card. Would that card work with Vue 8 Pro Studio? The PC I have now is an older dual processor with 4 gigs of RAM and Window XP home 32 bit. The graphics card is a cheap one that does not seem to work very well with Vue. Is the Radeon that is included any good? Thanks, Sherrie

I would go for nVidia rather than ATI, they play better with Vue and find they are often recommended for other software too.

Make sure you use the latest video drivers, I always make sure they are WHQL certified as well.

Thanks. I read on the Vue site that ATi does not seem to work.

 Maybe Navidia works better, but I have ATI and the learning version of Vue is working fine with it.

I would buy that system with the ATI card and try it out.  If you find that the ATI card doesn't work well for you, then spend another $100-$200 for a NVidia card.  You can always sell the ATI card on EBay or through your local adds.

In my personal experience, I found no difference between the ATI and NVidia graphics.  Mind you, I used older ATI cards.  I 'hear' that Nvidia has a better OpenGL implementation, but I cannot say from my own experience.  For my last graphics box, I spec'd out a Nvidia GTS250 - works very well.

Be aware that paying more for a higher end card (ATI or NVidia) is not worth it as VUE will not use the power.

The other option you have for that price is to go into a computer shop and get an estimate for having a system custom built to what you want within your cost and see where that will get you.  This is ussually the best way to go - no compromises that someone else makes on your behalf.

Quote - I 'hear' that Nvidia has a better OpenGL implementation, but I cannot say from my own experience.

95% of the times you read on forums of people complaining about OpenGL problems the name of the manufacturer is ATI... maybe it is not just a coincidence.

Bye... from a 10+ years nVidia user.

Magic Micro (My old system is from them) Has an i7 with 16 gigs of RAM and an Nvidia card for 1200. Plus three years warranty. It's a better systen than best Buy. However, my current card is a Radeon four years old, and Vue does not like it.

 I have ATI Radeon HD 5870:

which seems to work okay with vue on my mac.
Love esther

It's not that ATI cards do not work well... it's just all in the drivers.  AMD does not seem to spend enough time tweaking the OpenGL drivers for the Radeons.   In my case, the Radeon 9800 Pro drivers were great for VUE.

Please note this thread from the "Geek At Play" forum... the user XFGEXO found a set of ATI drivers that work well on his 5800 series card.

http://www.geekatplay.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=2355

Thanks all!

I have a ATI Radeon HD 5770 card and it does not work with open GL. I just installed the new card and it makes Bonzai's screen go 

haywire. This is also happening to all my open GL programs, Maya, Vue, Poser, SketchupPro, ect....

anyone else having this problem should pester the vendor or Apple to get it fixed. Currently I cannot use any of these programs!

Karen

Well ATI cards better for gaming and NVIDIA for heavy 3D applications.
In the end it is down to lazy software houses like e-on and others who do high end graphics apps.
To actually do drivers for the cards, as at one time using a dx4 133 AMD years ago, 1 game would on work well with 3D card.
It was upto card manufactures to fix but some software houses made sure they implemented a card driver to work with their game.
For gaming ATI is superior and for 3D art ect NVIDIA superb.

As have 22 diff comp