[Bf-webcontent] Graphics Card Performance

[Bart]

My Girlfriend got an Ati Radeon 8500 and Blender runs fine! At work 
running Geforce256, 2MX or 4MX without any problems (Win2k, WinXP).

Got an older notebook with Ati Rage Lt pro and getting problems with 
menus and icons :( (Win2K).



Joshua DOSS schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm working on the Graphics card page and have a question for the group.
> 
> There is a section titled "Graphics Compatibility Test Results". I would 
> like to update this portion of the page, but only have access to a 
> handful of video cards among myself and my friends. None of them are 
> older cards, pretty much Nvidia 5200 - 6800, ATI 9200-X850 and 3Dlabs 
> Wildcat Realizm 100, 200 and 800 and Wildcat VP. Any suggestions? What 
> about recommending your card support OpenGL 1.5 for best results, OpenGL 
> 1.2 or better for ok support? I just think it would be unfair to only 
> test a handful of cards, there are so many out there, and likely many of 
> them will work fine. Perhaps I could use some benchmarking scores that 
> are published on the net already? For example, if the card received a 
> certain score, it would be "recommended", if it would be lower than that 
> we could call it "compatible", and if it below this threshold we can 
> call it "not recommended"?
> 
> Additionaly, I've updated the Card Manufacturers list, removing those 
> companies which are no longer in existence, and adding in a handful that 
> weren't there previously. Bart, could you please publish this? Next week 
> I'll work on the paragraph content, it contains some grammatical errors, 
> and it would be nice to update the video cards in that section to 
> something more recent as well.
> 
> Regards,
> Joshua Doss
> 
> 
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