Hi Jason, aren't the current gaming monitors all (or mostly) 120 Hz? At least companies like alianware sell GeForce together with 120 Hz monitors.
A On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Jason Vertrees < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Thanks for asking before buying. You've avoided a common mistake. > > If you want to do 120 Hz stereoscopic 3D you must have a Quadro card. > GeForce cards, even the really expensive ones, are made for games (and > DirectX) not science. I've seen people pay upwards of $1000 for a > top-of-the-line GeForce card only to be disappointed to find out it won't > do in-window and full-screen OpenGL stereoscopic 3D like a $99 Quadro card > will. > > If you're using passive 3D, like anaglyph or Zalman, then a GeForce card > should be capable. I've run both off a MacBook Pro before just fine. > > Last, here's http://www.pymolwiki.org/index.php/Stereo_3D_Display_Optionsthe > discussion on the PyMOLWiki from our users. > > Cheers, > > -- Jason > > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Alex Kavian <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> I have an off-toptic question about Graphics card. My searches on >> pymolwiki and ccp4bb archives resulted in the following conclusion: Coot >> and pymol are not compatible with the new GeForce graphics cards. Hoewver, >> most of the posts I found were from 2009 and 2010. Does anyone here have >> any experience with GeForce 660 or 680 for stereo applications of Coot, >> Pymol or UCSF chimera? Will quadro cards work equally smooth in the stereo >> mode of these programs? Do 3D applications put too much pressure on the >> Graphics card which would justify installing dual Graphics card? (not sure >> if is relevant, but just for the record, we want to buy passive 3D monitor >> due to the budget restrictions). >> >> Thanks, >> Alex >> > > > > -- > Jason Vertrees, PhD > Director of Core Modeling Product Management > Schrödinger, Inc. > > (e) [email protected] > (o) +1 (603) 374-7120 >
