Best - Lowcost graphics card for Maya
Well, not a new issue , I suppose but my question is -
If I had to buy today the best card for Maya with as little money possible - what should it be ? I have ATI Radeon 8500 but due to at least two issue where it is very buggy - I am considering a future shift to an nVidia card , now I won't be spending as much as I did with ATI - would a Geforce 3 be working nicely with the image planes ? Will the Renderview turn white when loosing focus ? Are there any nVidia -specific bugs ? and are MX440 cards worthy ? Nir:confused: |
I have a Geforce 2 MX 400 and maya works fine.
no bugs . nothing. and with my 2,2 GHz Pentium 4 is the render fast enough. |
I have a Geforce 2 MX 400 in one of my machines... but you can forget it if you wanna play doom 3 :D
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Hey nirsul, what exactly are your issues. I'm using a 9700 pro and don't seem to have any problem. I had a 7500 prior to that and Maya would crash constantly.
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another known bug is that if you run a render and you switch to another application or window and return to the render view - you get a white screen until it finishes the rendering. I was told that these are known bugs Nir:o |
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Im using XP pro , Athon 1.8xp processor and 1gig ram ... What version of drivers are you using in your machine ? and what version of Windows u using please roach? |
I'v got a nVidia card, if I open a nother window whill render the render view gose wight untill its done. I also get the wight screen, and blur on image pains when I move or size the view.. but I don't think it gose wierd on me though whill I'm just working over the image though..
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I can say one thing, the GeForce 4 MX series sucks. They are considered a GeForce 2.5 by most. I would at least have a GeForce 3 or a Ti4200. but that is just me.
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i wudnt really recommend ATi cards for 3d work, weird drivers
go with a ti4200, theyre rather cheap atm |
Nirsul, i believe the issue with the white screen when switching windows or apps during rendering is an XP issue.
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I will have to agree with mrmacca, I just changed to win 2000 like 3 weeks ago. And I have not had the problem of the wight image plain or scrambaling since then.. same gf card.
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Regarding your original question about a low-cost graphics card for 3d work, I'd recommend the GeForce 4 Ti4200 128MB (4X) card. It performs great in Maya, don't know about games (I use my Playstation2 for that), and I patched the Detonator drivers so it performs like a Quadro4 700XGL, Win2K even detects it as such. Performs much better now, and there is a noticeable performance increase. Check out www.guru3d.com/rivatuner for info on patching any GF card to it's Quadro counterpart. Despite others opinions, the two card families are very similar (ie, GF4 > Q4), save a few disabled transistors on the Q).
I bought a Gainward "Golden Sample" GF4 card, meaning they're certified by the mfr to be overclockable, if you're into that. You didn't state your pricerange, but I bought it for ~$160... |
If you can afford about 425$ you can go for an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. Very good choice.
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You can avoid the white screen when switching and non minimising box thing with XP by turning on the classic interface- it's a known problem with the XP interface and is covered on the AW website.
Radeons are decent cards and the new 9800 pro has impressive stats but I have never liked their drivers which always take many iterations to run properly, or indeed their tech support. Nvidia are more consistent and you won't see the high end features of that sort of card used properly for a while anyway. |
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OOPs I forgot.... I promised not to disclose stuff like that...:banghead: :banghead: |
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