--- Darcy James Argue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All I'm saying > -- and I've been > pretty clear about this, I think -- is that, of > cards currently on > the market, when it comes to 2D performance, there > is no significant > difference between a $100 graphics card and a $1500 > graphics card.
And you've never shown any evidence to dispute the fact that on my very own machine I've been able to show that with more graphic card features enabled, performance in Finale slows down. You've made the claim that this is actually the CPU doing this work, but as I've indicated, Microsoft and other companies state that it is all video hardware handling these tasks. > > > The Radeon 9700 Pro is STILL a decent video > > card by today's standards > > For 2D applications, perhaps -- it was, after all, a > top-of-the-line > high-performance card at the time. I'd rather have a Radeon 9700 in this machine than an X600. The graphic features that are most widely used in software these days, such as lighting effects and anti-aliasing, were all well-along in their development by the time the 9700's rolled out. This is just silly though. You're telling me that because I'm simply not able to find many articles addressing 2D performance that it some how indicates the performance has equalized? I've explained to you that I have a real, reproducible situation involving Finale that strongly suggests I am correct. And the articles that I have been able to find back me up. Believe me. If my X600 stumbles badly at this resolution, I have GOOD reason to believe a 7300GT would stumble if I was trying to run 2 displays on it at a much higher resolution. And my needs don't stop with running a single 2D application with changing graphics at one time. And I will soon be required to update to Windows Vista. I have every reason to believe that I'll be better served by spending hundreds of dollars on a video card rather than an extra processor. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
