I've already posted this over on the Cornucopia forums, but haven't had much by way of replies, so I figured I'd try it here.

I've come to the conclusion that Vue hates my graphics card. It's an Asus 6850 DirectCU, and it doesn't seem to matter whether I have the latest drivers or if I have the OpenGL set to hardware pipeline, it still crashes. I'm presently using the software setting for OpenGL and it seems that I can at least edit all materials for an object without the program flipping me off and crashing. It's not perfect, but better.

Anyway, after consulting with my partner, it's been decided that I should look into maybe building a workstation rig purely for creating my artwork. This would mean I can shoot zombies in the face on my present rig, while the workstation deals with renders.

At present, I'm thinking that a E3 Xeon CPU (4 cores/8 threads) and an Nvidia workstation GPU will be the order of the day. I'm hoping a Quadro K600 would be enough for the GPU, as it's a bit of a financial leap from that to something like the Quadro K2000. If I'm wrong in my thoughts for CPU and/or GPU, do feel free to correct me. Maybe an i7 would be better.

If I could get some help on what might be a decent, but affordable, build for Vue to run on, that would be great. The emphasis is really on affordable as I'm:

a) A miser, and

b) Don't have a lot of money

My present rig is a Phenom II x6 1090t, 12GB of 1333 RAM, 6850 GPU and Vue 11 Studio (hoping to upgrade to Complete asap). I'd prefer something that performs better than what I have now.

Thanks in advance :biggrin:

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