On 15 Jul 2005 at 1:17, Darcy James Argue wrote: > Any ATI or nVidia graphics card with 32MB or more supports OpenGL > (and, on Windows, Direct3D -- the Windows version of Sib may use > Direct3D, I don't know).
Is nVidia the chipset that ATI uses? Mine is ATI and I know it's an nVidia chipset. I can't seem to find any way to poke the thing to find out how much RAM it has. It currently has a driver installed for the 8MB version, but that could be the wrong one. I'd have to uninstall and redetect to find out, and I don't have the time for that (and it could still redetect wrong, since I believe that's how I did it after I tested a newer driver, which failed to work). I'm almost certain that this machine would not have been bought with such a meager video card as only 8MBs, but I don't have the original ordering information, as I bought it from a client (for whom I'd originally speced it out and set it up) when it was less than a year old (and used it as nothing more than a file and web server for about 18 months). Oops, now I know -- I was able to pull up the shipped configuration on Dell's website, and it is only 8MBs. Well, that answers that, at least. I still am surprised that we skimped on video, since I've always considered it crucially important to have lots of video RAM to insure getting maximum performance out of the Windows GUI. That and RAM and fast hard disks are the most important factors in having a fast PC -- most bargain PCs skimp heavily in those three areas, but this was *not* a cheap PC. It came with 256MBs, a 20GB hard drive and a tape drive, back when that was a *really* heavy-duty, workstation-level configuration (one of my clients' NT file server had only 256MBs at the same time, and it was only a 1-year-old server). Maybe I'm just misremembering when 16- and 32MB video cards became normal. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc All non-quoted content (c) David W. Fenton, all rights reserved _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
