I don't have exact figures, but Im working on a 66 machine athlon cluster
here at school. (We just built the machines yesterday), still got to wire
them. The Prof. choosed amd 700Mhz, because appartently it could almost
get 2 fp / cycle. Usinge some of the 3Dnow will make it run even
quicker... like i said, Im no expert but maybe something to look into.
Ron
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Inaam Khan wrote:
> Hello all of you seem to be interested in Graphics card. I have a simple
> question. Which one of the Chips, Pentium Intel III, Latest AMD chips or
> Cyrix etc are the best buy for a graphics oriented application.
> Has any body used the Operating System BeOS which is for Multimedia. Will
> using such an OS give certain enhancements in speed for Java3D.
> Thanks in advance.
> Adios
> Inaam AFzal Khan
>
>
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Desiree Hilbring wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Most users of my application will use a P II PC with about 128MB Ram
> > and Windows NT and OpenGL. What
> > kind of Graficcards would you recommend for this configuration with
> > hardware acceleration with reasonable costs?
> > I want to be sure, that hardware acceleration is used and someone told me
> > the card should have a AGB-Bus.
> > So with which kind of graphicards did you have good expierence?
> > I have been told, that the GeForce chip is the best chip in the moment,
> > but unfortunately it might be still to expensive for the users. What about
> > a Riva TNT chip? I read in the FAQ about problems with the TNT chips. Are
> > they solved for J3D1.1.3 or J3D1.2beta?
> > I am not sure which kind J3D version I will use, know I am working with
> > J3D 1.1.3 but I am thinking to change to J3D 1.2beta because of the
> > picking, which I get hopefully then to work properly. Did someone have
> > expirience with J3D1.2beta picking yet?
> >
> > I really would appreciate your expieriences.
> > Thanks, Desiree
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Shawn Kendall wrote:
> >
> > > We have the exact same card and it runs beautifully on 98 and NT.
> > > Here's a couple of things to check.
> > >
> > > What version of Java3D are you running? OpenGL or DirectX? DirectX is no
> > > good on NT.
> > > Try installing Service Pack 5 for NT.
> > > Get the latest GeForce OpenGL drivers from www.nVidia.com
> > >
> > > Good luck, and if that doesn't fix it give a holler!
> > >
> > > Venkata Mahadevan wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi all. I got a Guillemot 3d prophet GeForce card to
> > > > use with Java3d. But there are some major problems.
> > > >
> > > > When I run openGL benchmarks on the card (written in
> > > > C) and/or OpenGL programs, the card performs
> > > > beautifully.
> > > > It is extremely fast and smooth.
> > > >
> > > > On the other hand, Java3d programs do not seem to be
> > > > accelerated at all. They run extremely slowly. I
> > > > downloaded the BencchJ3d app from www.tornadolabs.com
> > > > and it performs very poorly on it. Maybe 20FPS.
> > > >
> > > > Also, I am writing a program which accesses a database
> > > > to get 3d data and I get the following error:
> > > >
> > > > ddraw.dll initialization failed. The process is
> > > > terminating abnormally
> > > > wglcreatecontext failed
> > > >
> > > > I am running WinNT 4.0 with Service Pack 3
> > > > P-III 500
> > > > 512MB RAM
> > > >
> > > > What could be the matter? I strongly suspect that NT
> > > > is somehow fouling things up and am considering
> > > > switching to Win98 instead.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Venkata
> > > >
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