Advanced Member SonK Posted May 20, 2008 Advanced Member Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 I'm actually running a low end Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS and the performance is just amazing. I'm just curious what kind of graphics card people using 3DCoat with? and how is the performance ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member lc8b105 Posted May 20, 2008 Advanced Member Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 3D-coat even can run well on my laptop with Inter GMA 950 integrated card,1GB RAM.The performance is good but the texture size should <= 1024*1024. Andrew did a good job,he made 3dc can run well even on very weak computer. As I know,topogun/FaoGen/modo can't run at all on my weak laptop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Cufas Arts Posted May 20, 2008 Member Report Share Posted May 20, 2008 Geoforce 7400 go on a laptop - runs just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Oliver Thornton Posted May 22, 2008 Advanced Member Report Share Posted May 22, 2008 GeForce 7950. But speaking from personal experience I can say with all honesty that RAM makes a bigger difference in performance, especially with a 64 bit system. With 2GB on Windows XP I maxed out 3DC's performance (under those specs) at 16m polys and 2 layers of texture at 4096x4096. Working with a model at this resolution would choke my system, even with the /3gb switch enabled it would eventually groan to a stop. With Vista64 and 8GB of RAM my machine my machine runs the same model in 3DC like a dream. It's a truly beautiful thing after struggling with the XP RAM cap for so many months. One thing I learned about video cards during my upgrades: More VRAM on your card actually means the system loses resources to manage it. So a 1.5G video card sounds cool until you put it in a 2GB system and find only .5GB of system resources left to manage the OS and other apps. Weird, huh? So on a system running 3DC with only 1-2gb of ram, a smaller graphic drain/less powerful card on your system resources is a good thing. Sorry, went on a bit of a tangent there. -Oliver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member Roger_K Posted May 22, 2008 Advanced Member Report Share Posted May 22, 2008 At work im using a Quadro FX 570 and at home a GF8600GT both are giving excelent results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member jaf Posted May 22, 2008 Advanced Member Report Share Posted May 22, 2008 an ATI 1900 XTX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member capt_eatbones Posted May 23, 2008 Member Report Share Posted May 23, 2008 I'm working with 6800GT 256 Mb. 3DC runs fine, even with 4096 texture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnolan3d Posted May 23, 2008 Report Share Posted May 23, 2008 GeForce 8800 GTS here. it works great but I wish I had more than 320MB ram in it so I could use larger texture sizes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Member EXP Posted June 19, 2008 New Member Report Share Posted June 19, 2008 Nvidia 8800GTS 512MB XP64 with 4GB RAM Q6600CPU Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchy Pilou Posted June 20, 2008 Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 Ati RAdeon 9200 128 Mg run but with very low down regulates Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member rimasson Posted June 20, 2008 Advanced Member Report Share Posted June 20, 2008 Quadro FX 1500 at home Quadro FX 4600 at work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member juanmanuel Posted June 21, 2008 Advanced Member Report Share Posted June 21, 2008 A humble nVidia 8400GTS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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