Hi, I need to get a new PC. I was wondering if anyone here uses a graphics card with more than one gigabyte? If so does vue play nice that way? Also, if that's not a good way to go how well does Vue work with Nvidia cards in sli mode?

Thanks for any input

Brian

You might want to look at the FIRST PART of the this thread..... where a few of us hardware geeks briefly discussed video cards for Melika's new machine.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2829452

Essentially, Vue does not use the graphics chip to construct a render. Instead, the CPU is used. (This is true for most 3d programs.) So, for Vue (and for most 3d applications) there is little point is using a video card with more than 512 MB of RAM, and no particular point in using multiple video cards in SLI mode.

NVidia cards perform much better with Vue than do ATI cards.

I have installed Vue on a friend's gaming machine that is using two nVidia 540 cards in SLI mode. There seems to be no problem with Vue operations on this rig - it's just that there is no gain of any sort with the SLI dual cards. So, if the reason that you are interested in SLI is for the gaming facility, go ahead and do it.

If you are mostly interested in Vue, however, your money is better spent on a great motherboard, more RAM, and the best CPU you can afford.

Thanks for the info. I thought that the video card's opengl had something to do with the speed of setting up scenes and such. I have an ATI card right now in my machine, I don't like some of the ways it seems to dislike Vue. So I bought a Nvidia GeForce GT 220, with 2gigs of ram on it. Anyway Vue screamed to an almost hault using that card so I had to go back, then setting up scenes was much faster. I'll probably just go with a higher end single card solution then.

Also get as much system RAM as you can!

Actually, the RAM of a video card DOES affect Vue or other 3D apps,because it affects how the app displays/stores polygons/textures while you use them on screen in real time!

there is a noticeable BIG difference in ease of use wth Vue when using 512 vs 1gb graphics card, when working with very complex scenes
otherwise you have to start turnign down the display quality with less than 1gb cards

However I think at moment Vue can only use up to 1gb ont he video card, or was tthat a limit only up to Vue8? :)

since Vue doesn't use GPU CPU for rendering (well, sort in Vue9 but it's not an issue), you are as well stciking to low/middle end curent gaming video cards, such as a GT240, they're cheap and 1gb avaliable for about £50 or £60 now? that's what I use