Hi everybody! I'm new here and I have a question for the "wise" guys of this site... is it true that the ATI Radeon Video Cards don't work that well with MAYA? I'm a little worried ´cause I just bought one of those Video Cards.

Thanks,

Eduardo

yes unfortunately its true. i've got a 9800pro myself, and using Maya 5. after a while i notice a major slowdown for a couple seconds, which is merely a warning of what's to come. if i keep on modeling after that warning, eventually it slows down really really badly, and ends up causing the 9800 to do a VPU recover.
so i usually just restart maya after that initial slowdown to be on the safe side, but since that's maybe 15 minutes after i load it, its kind of a pain.

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I never really have any slowdowns, and I'm on a radeon 9600 pro mobile. The only thing I do notice is that with paint fx and while working with surface points or isoparms there is a red trail left behind where the pointer was until you stop dragging. That's a real pain, but you can work around it for the most part. Also, it seems the lasso tool has a similar problem.

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If that is the radeon card i am thinking of then the reason why you dont have any problems is because it is onboard on a laptop it does not work through the AGP slot - Maya does not work with the Radeons through the AGP slots very well - they are like old married couples that keep arguing about cats crapping in the garden!!!!

Thanks everybody!!

That's disappointing!!!

By the way, I've just found more details about compatibility between MAYA and popular video cards in the ALIAS site:

https://www.alias.com/eng/support/may...ya_60_win.html




Also, check out this site (this guy is amazing, he was one of the 3D artists that worked in LORD OF THE RINGS:

https://homepage.mac.com/tkluysk/ens/

Enjoy!

Eduardo

hey i have that red trail on my curve point also. Its definately annoying. I'm also using 9800 xt and 9600/9700 mobile.