Topic: Recommend graphics card?

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  • December 18, 2005 at 18:06 #699
    lunik
    Participant

    I’m trying Podium again on my latest machine…based on an asus T2 SFF barebones. I’m using integrated graphics, and podium’s GUI perfromance is poor. It keeps spiking the cpu when I do things in the arrangement window. Fritz had mentioned in the past that he uses transparency etc so I assume the int. graphics chip doesn;t support all of his gui calls and its churning the CPU (or could the problem be something different?)
    A little frustating as Fruity Loops gui is very fast on humble graphics adpaters.

    Anyway, I’m not really ‘up’ on the latest graphics chipsets and so forth as I don;t play games much…. what is the minium type of card/chipset i need to get acceptable gui performance out of podium? Will one of those 30 dollar cards do it or is something a bit beefier required? I really don;t want to have one with a fan as I want to keep noise down.

    I’m really starting to ‘grok’ podium now… I think the learning curve is really in the setup aspect and understanding mappings, presets and parameters which I don;t totally understand yet, but have been able to recreate typical plugin setups and so forth.

    thanks
    Lunik

    December 18, 2005 at 18:26 #5768
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    How much memory are available to your onboard gfx card? Depending on what resolution you use, make sure at least 16-32 MB are available to the graphics card. On some older machines you can configure this in the BIOS.

    I’m using an ATI Radeon X300 gfx card, which has no fans. More expensive cards are mainly focused on 3D game features, which will not not benefit Podium much.

    Frits

    December 18, 2005 at 23:21 #5771
    super_crunchy
    Participant

    I use an onboard graphics card on my laptop (shared 64mb). I turned “hardware acceleration” to about 50% to help run some plugins smoother, and it also helped Podium a little I found

    A “run of the mill” 64mb card should be find I think, you could probably pick one up for $50

    December 19, 2005 at 16:18 #5782
    lunik
    Participant

    The onboard gfx is using 32meg RAM. I guess this just isn’t enough.
    my work laptop has a nvidia go5600 chip and podium gui is fine, so time to upgrade I think!

    thanks for replies

    @Zynewave wrote:

    How much memory are available to your onboard gfx card? Depending on what resolution you use, make sure at least 16-32 MB are available to the graphics card. On some older machines you can configure this in the BIOS.

    I’m using an ATI Radeon X300 gfx card, which has no fans. More expensive cards are mainly focused on 3D game features, which will not not benefit Podium much.

    Frits

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