Does anyone know if the OpenGL support on the new ATI cards works with Vue? Someone once said here that the Radeon 7000 worked just fine with Vue so I am wondering if the same is true of the new 9000 card?

You'd think so cause Open GL is just that Open Standard. They haven't made any changes to that.

If that can helps, it works fine too with Radeon 8500 ! Argentium Thri'ile

Thanks. I have read that the performance of the 8500 is actually better than the 9000. So when ATI start to dump the 8500 in favor of the new card it should be possible to pick up a real bargain.

The ATI 9000 is a tuned up ATI 7000, just like the Nvidia GF4 MX is a tuned up GF2 aka no DirectX8.* support no shading stuff etc.

Forgot :) The ATI 9700 (priced here (NL) around $500) is the replacement for the ATI 8500 series.

Yes - ATI 9000 PRO works in OpenGL with the new drivers. I am currently running it on my system. I think you may have read my reply on the Radeon VE/7000 which I have in my other system. The old drivers didn't enable OpenGL correctly and you had to tweak the registry to enable OpenGL. However, I'm still working w/o OpenGL because even on my system (Athon 2000+), OpenGL is still "dog-slow" and the regen times are at least 5 seconds with the models I do. Cheers, JoeK

The 9700 is $399 in the US (or ATI has an upgrade for $349 if you send back your old card to them). I'm still waiting for the All-In-Wonder version of the 9700 to actually be released. It's probably gonna be $499, but the specs are incredible for both 3D and TV.

As to the OpenGL, it does work on the AIW 8500DV, but I had to tweak the settings in the OpenGL display properties to get it not to crash. However, even after that, it ran pretty slow in large scenes, so I wound up shutting it off anyway.