Graphics Card

[druitre]

I know you're supposed to use Quadro cards, but just for the record: who's running Softimage on a consumer card and what would be a good choice at this moment?

I bought a Geforce 8800GTS about two years ago, as far as I can see I've never had a problem with it. Now, I'm about to assemble a new system and in the meantime the landscape has changed drastically. None of the models that were sizzling hot in 2008 are even considered low-end today. I lean towards Nvidia because I've always used them and never had a problem with them. Also, I want CUDA.

Thanks for any suggestions,
Jasper

[Hirazi Blue]

Can't really help you there, sorry, but maybe you could start by looking at the Graphics Hardware Qualification document, that lists some info about consumer graphics cards as well

[druitre]

Thanks, but I looked at that list before posting and IMO it is very, very conservative. It does hardly any listing for Windows 7 (even for Quadro cards) and I can assure you my 2-year old consumer card and Softimage work perfectly on a Win7/64bits system. That's why I'm asking for user experience. If that's favourable, I'll take the risk of ignoring the official list.

[Hirazi Blue]

The lack of info about Window 7 might stem from the fact, that Softimage 2010 didn't officially support it yet... ;)

[druitre]

Yes, that's exactly what I mean. There's a difference between what AD officially supports and what will work. Not a defect on AD's side, just the way official support will work for any product. Even if a non-supported card will, in 99% of the cases, perform 99% as well as a card that has 100% official support, it will still be non-supported. Only user experience can tell other users anything about how well a non-supported car performs. Just as long as you remember you won't have support when it comes to solving problems.

As a Windows 7 user, for instance, I can tell you 7.01 works on that platform. Even though it's not supported. (not by me, either