I'd like to upgrade my video card.. and i was wondering if anyone had a the scoop on the recomended video card for daz studio.. ATI or Nvidea ... It would be great if Daz could let us know wich card they are actually testing and developing on.. thanks in advance...

I would like an answer about this too since I'm going to upgrade my PC in the near future. Thanks

I use an All-In-Wonder Radeon 7500 Video Card, AGP 4X, 64MB DDR; Powerful all-in-one 3D, TV and video for your PC Powered by the RADEON 7500 GPU, 64MB DDR memory Stereo TV-tuner, TV-ON-DEMAND Time shifting Integrated Interactive Program Guide, capture and edit MPEG-2 video into your own creations, Radio-frequency remote control, DVD video playback I like it because it has TV/video in and video out. You can use your TV as your monitor. It comes with Ulead video editing software so if you make movies in Poser you can use this software to put it together and add sound/music. Then reverse inputs and watch your creation on your TV

How much was that?

If you're considering buying Vue d'espirit some day avoid N'vidia cards. Vue 4 doesn't work well with them due to conflicts with open gl and multithreading. There is no fix for the problem other than using clunky wire frame modes to compose scenes. Just thought I'd warm you in case you also had Vue in your future, which creates beautfil, realitic outdoor scenes with Poser people.

the problem is that N'vidia technology is being used mostly by all companies that manufacture videocards now.

I hadn't heard of the Vue problems before, but otherwise, nVidea and ATI pretty much run neck and neck as 3D accelerators these days (for a long time, nVidea had the upper hand in performance). I'm a big nVidea fan, but I don't think you can go wrong with either of those two. Just look at the features of each card and see if one fits your usage better.

Thanks for the tip on Vue... yes down the line i was thinking of buying vue.. i'll probabbly go with one of the ATI cards.. unless someone from Daz says otherwise... wich model... now that's really confusing both N'vidia and Ati have cards rangeing from $80 to close to $500.. I'm not really a gamer.. 3d is what i'd use it for..

Attached Link: http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/20030714/index.html

May I suggest another site, such as www.anandtech.com intead of Tom's Harward. He has been known to take $for reviews, and is very biased in favor or certain companies. Use his site at your own risk - Ray

I have an ATI All-In-Wonder 9700 w/128 megs. If that ain't good enough then it will just have to do!! LOL. Laurie

I just bought a ATI FireGL 8800, with 128Mb of memory, this is a workstation card, not a game card (like most of them are), it is also discontinued, was only $220 or so, it compares well with current $400 workstation cards. It also runs 2 monitors and does other neat tricks. I was worried it only did 1280 x 1024 resolution (which is a non-4:3 aspect), as that is what they list on the box, but I was glad to find it also has 1280 x 960, along with many others, of course. I'd assume DAZ Studio is going to support Open GL, but I really bought it for Max.

Hmmm. I have VUE & Nvidia card(4600)...no problems whatsoever with running/rendering VUE.

Its my guess that the performance of a video card doesnt matter if you want to create or use 3D models. All the computing is done inside your cpu, not in the graphic card. These graphic cards are good for gamers, because new games just send vectors of objects to the card, which calculates lights and maps textures on it, fast enough for dozens of frames per second. The CPU itself doesnt know about the result of this operation. But if you are using poser for example, you want the CPU to calculate the whole image, because you want to save it afterwards. So 3D acceleration probably wont give you any advantage while rendering, it might speed up redrawing of windows and menus, but I doubt that this sppe gain will be noticeable. So save your money on the card, get more memory... (You cant have enough of this...)

ATI uses the same chips on their workstations cards as their gaming cards, the difference is in the drivers, and which driver the bios allows you to install. You can bypass this though. Once the bios is fooled it will install the driver for the FireGL cards. I did it to test, and it does run 3D apps much smoother/faster. I could never really understand how they could justify selling people a 600$ card, that contains the exact same hardware as a 300$ one. Nvidia used to do the same. Now they actually produce slightly different variants of the chips with the professional ones including a few specific line and point accelleration functions.

I have Vue and NVidia GeForce4 TI 4600. No problems of which to speak. No problems with Lightwave, Max, Maya, or Cinema either. Hmmmm, must be spin... :) Oh, and from my experience, NVidia has better OpenGL support than the ATI counterparts (except for maybe the 9800 Pro - haven't seen it to compare). For DAZ Studio, that's what counts.

To answer the question: DAZ|Studio is being tested on both ATI and NVIDIA cards. At the moment, there's nothing released about which card handles D|S better. That information will be available as we go into the public beta phase however. Steve Kondris DAZ Productions, Inc.

GeForce 3 TI 200 - no problems at all with Vue. Or Bryce, or Poser. Poser doesn't take advantage of video cards - it's all CPU. Seems like one person has a problem with drivers, then it becomes Nvidea doesn't work with such-and-such. And after it get repeated 100 times, people believe it as gospel.

Hey guys, I guess the problem with Vue was addressed in later n'videa cards, but unfortunately not with driver updates for earlier ones. I have a GE Force 2 card, if you check the Vue forum and E-ons website you can get more info. on this problem. Thanks for chiming in, because I've been considering a card upgrade to solve this problem, now I might consider n'videa again.

FYI, there is no ' in Nvidia, and it isnt spelled Nvidea. :)

Thanks Steve! MallenLane- H'mmm, very intresting, I never knew that. I wonder about the high end workstaion cards too, Gee that is a lot of money!

Thanks... pretty cool stuff.. I'm off shopping!!!