Hi, I do not have any special Vedio card, I'm not sure how to find out which card is available on my Win 98 machine. I saw it under Control Panel/Disply properties/setting it shows "Dell M770 on Intel(r) 82810E Graphic Controller 4.12.01.2586". I guess this is the default card comes with Dell/Intel PIII machine.Is it the correct place to look for the graphic card info?
> you two are running is 90% CPU bound, not video card, then you could What is a 90% CPU bound? nitin > -----Original Message----- > From: John Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 1:11 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] regarding vedio card > > > Lan, > > Your TNT2 chipset is getting a bit "old". Newer video cards > can deliver > significantly better performance. During our development with Java 3D > we noticed significant improvements as we stepped from Matrox G200s, > thru Voodoo 3s to GeForce cards. The TNT2 is about on par with a > Voodoo3. With a GeForce 3 or 4 I could easily believe someone getting > ten times the performance that you are getting. (especially if you're > running a PCI not AGP interface). > > But the type of 3D scene makes a big difference. If you have lots of > vertices you'll need CPU and RAM memory, if you have huge textures > you'll need a powerful video card with lots of video memory. If what > you two are running is 90% CPU bound, not video card, then you could > upgrade and see very little difference. Perhaps Nitin also > has a faster > CPU? > > - John Wright > Starfire Research > > Lan Wu-Cavener wrote: > > > > Hi, everyone: > > > > I just realize this and would like to hear other experts' comment. > > Several days ago, Nitin Jain posted a test code which rendered 1000 > > spheres. I ran that code on my machine. the time it took to > show these 1000 > > spheres is 9 times slower than that he posted. This brought > the wonders > > that whether my graphic card is adequate for java3D > programming. I am > > supposed to render over 50,000 individual tree objects plus terrain. > > I have a NDivia TNT2 64Model 32 MB mem. card using PCI bus > (I don't know > > what this means because the card is listed as AGP card in > the sales invoice). > > > > Anyone cares for comment? Any comment is well welcome and > appreciated. > > > > Cheers! > > > > Lan Wu-Cavener > > Research Associate and Programmer > > Dept. of Landscape Architecture > > > > > ============================================================== > ============= > > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > include in the body > > of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general > help, send email to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". > > ============================================================== > ============= > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > include in the body > of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, > send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help". > =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA3D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
