I used a NVidia TNT2 and Savage 4 card on windows 98. Its pretty slick when it works, however, the stability of the system is pretty poor when running dual monitors. But, boy, it sure makes modelling nice (and web page developemnt!). The only app I had stability problems with on dual monitors was Carrara. But is annoying enough that I have disabled dual monitors. The other thing to watch for is your system will have only a single AGP slot. The second video card MUST be PCI, which is good becasue PCI cards are usually cheaper. The second thing is that only your primary adapter will support 3D acceleration un Direct 3D (if I have read Microsoft's docs right).

I used a NVidia TNT2 and Savage 4 card on windows 98. Its pretty slick when it works, however, the stability of the system is pretty poor when running dual monitors. But, boy, it sure makes modelling nice (and web page developemnt!). The only app I had stability problems with on dual monitors was Carrara. But is annoying enough that I have disabled dual monitors. The other thing to watch for is your system will have only a single AGP slot. The second video card MUST be PCI, which is good becasue PCI cards are usually cheaper. The second thing is that only your primary adapter will support 3D acceleration un Direct 3D (if I have read Microsoft's docs right).

I use(d) RDS and Carrara for modelling and rendering. Carrara has problems with both on my dual monitor Athlon system. It crashes when I render output as AVI files - so I must animate as an MOV and translate back to AVI with a post process. There also some bugs regarding cloaking in animations. The shader editor is outstanding in Carrara and is stable. ANyway I will try the Amapi modeller and see if it works. Thanks for the tip!

Carrara has the potential to be a great program, if they would just fix the stability problems. At my company, we switched from RayDream 5.5 to Carrara, and liked what we saw, but the stability was too poor to use. If they ever release Carrara 1.1 I'll be a happy camper. So, I agree with the original author (krbtv)- Who owns Carrara, and more importantly, who is going to write the patches?