I currently have a 4 year old Leadtek GeForce card that does OK with OpenDX but if I change the Opacity in Colormap Editor it slows to a crawl. Also the rendering quality seems to be poor compared to the software OpenGL.
I'm wondering what people are having success with as far as graphics cards and OpenDX on PC's with Linux. I've taken a look and it seems that there are a couple of different tiers of cards. There are the cheaper cards (~$100 - $200) that seem to be for games primarily, and then there are cards like the FireGL cards which seem to be more geared towards strictly OpenGL acceleration. These (along with the nVidia QUADRO FX series) start at around $600. Is it worth it to spend the extra money or will the cheaper cards (lightyears ahead of my GeForce card I'm sure) be able to handle such things as reduced Opacity? I'm interested in hearing what people are actually using with good results. I would like to have the ability to do stereo viewing so if you have recommendations on equipment for that too I'd be very interested. Thanks very much, Steve -- ______________________________________________________________________ Steve Cousins, Ocean Modeling Group Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marine Sciences, 208 Libby Hall http://rocky.umeoce.maine.edu Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME 04469 Phone: (207) 581-4302
