On 14 Aug 2006, at 2:00 PM, Tyler Turner wrote:
No Darcy. It is the 9000 Pro (or at least was advertised as such by the manufacturer)
Okay -- I didn't see a mobility version of the 9000 Pro listed in the Wikipedia pages, but I guess the entries aren't as complete as we'd like.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_9000
but the X600 is not the Pro version. As I said before, the memory speeds reported are very close between the two cards.
Similarly, I didn't see any non-pro versions of the X600 in Wikipedia. They show only two models, the X600 Pro and the X600 XT (which is actually faster than the Pro).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_X600
I said that I don't see a difference visually, but considering we're talking about black and white graphics in PrintMusic/Finale (not SmartMusic), it's a little hard to conclude that nothing is different.
Fair enough.
Not if certain enhancements are being applied that just aren't terribly obvious.
Also fair enough -- but it seems to me that if the visual enhancements aren't terribly obvious, but totally kill performance, then they shouldn't really be implemented on cards that can't handle the extra workload -- and that either the OS or the driver should really take this factor into account. Ideally, if your video card was crawling along at 2 fps, the OS would adjust the graphics acceleration features on the fly to improve performance. Most games are capable of these automatic adjustments.
I also had several people who seemed to be in a position to know assure me that ATI uses the same set of drivers across the line. Not just the same installer -- the same exact drivers. According to them, if your drivers are up-to-date, you can pop out one ATI card and replace it with another without needing to reinstall any drivers. (They said the same was true of nVidia, as well.) So I think it's at least within the realm of possibility that maxing out the slider is causing your X600 to enable features it is *technically* capable of, but not really designed to do very efficiently.
I'm pretty positive that I can try this on just about any PC and find that there will be a decrease in performance.
I'm actually quite curious what would happen if you tried messing with this slider on a PC with a 7300 GT or better!
Making guesses at this point is just silly though. The key test would be to get a hold of a computer that has a video card with memory that runs at 3 to 4 times the speed of these cards (which today's best cards have) and see how it performs with two cards of 2 different memory speeds.
Yes -- on this point, we are in absolute agreement. Cheers, - Darcy ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://secretsociety.typepad.com Brooklyn, NY _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
