I am wondering how much the video card helps VUE 10, and if it does which card or cards are the best to work with it... and why...

Thanks for your help.

Just check the feature list of the Vue product you're interested in at e-on. At the end of the list, there is a list of certified cards with their drivers.

Only xStream/Inf uses some GPU processing while rendering. From a Vue-point there is no need for anything fancy.

All Vue versions use GPU driving OpenGL for Previewing, in which case Vue has a mild historic preferece for nVidea, although ATI is doing fine the last years. From a Vue-point, a 1Gb card might be preferrable over a 512Mb one for heavy textured scenes. 

Thanks everyone.

All that is so helpful.

I have been reading a lot about Octane, and I wanted to have a video card that would serve both Vue and Octane when I am able to get a new one.

What do you folks think about Octane in general, and as compared to Vue?

Randy

Octane is a physical renderer, you load a scene in a few 3D formats and render it, Vue is a program that let you create, import, model, and render byour scenes. Vue's renderer isn't physically based, which means it's biased and uses cheats to mimic real light behaviour. Vue format cannot be read by Octane. You would need to export your Vue scene in , say, obj to be able to render it with Octane, with a few limitations (ecosystems) don't export.

Bot apps are very different, are used for very different things, and might never work together.

Octane is still work in progress too.