Bondo3D opened this issue on Dec 12, 2004 ยท 4 posts
Bondo3D posted Sun, 12 December 2004 at 9:46 AM
Hi there.... Tried the Vue5 demo and was disappointed that the application wouldn't allow to Hardware-accellerate on my new iMac G5. It's supplied with an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra with 64MB. The Vue5 requirements are ATI or NVidea...... so why doesn't it use it ???? Anyone with same experience ????
snekkis posted Sun, 12 December 2004 at 1:04 PM
Yes, I find the demo to be useless for me too on my G5 with 64MB nVidia card. I have tried the Vue5 demo on my PC with a 128 ATi card and it was a slow RT there too with a single sphere (???). Maybe it is a demo thing, though the Vue4 Pro demo had no frame drops.
PAGZone posted Sun, 12 December 2004 at 11:10 PM
Hmm. I have a Dual G5 with the Nvidia FX 5200 AGP card and it works fine for me. Just checked and it is in hardware accelerated OpenGL mode. I wonder if perhaps it just the New iMac? Have you tried asking e-on? Regards, Paul G5 DP 1.8, 1GB RAM, 160GB HD, OSX 10.3.6
Penguinisto posted Mon, 13 December 2004 at 9:39 AM
I've got the same vidcard everyone else in here does, and no worries - the thing ran nicely.
One thing that's possible is that the demo doesn't have the stability patches that the full version has. I recall Vue5 crashing and being forced upon restart into s/w compat. mode lots of times when I first installed it (Friday night.)
After downloading and applying the patch from e-on, all was well again. I have the paid-for version though, and not the demo.
My box is similar to PAGZone's:
dual 1.8 G5, 1.25GB RAM, GeForce FX5200, 80GB SATA HDD, OSX 10.3.6, dual monitor
Message edited on: 12/13/2004 09:41