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After seeing Venezolano’s topic: “Best desktop replacement to run Combustion???” i thought of something.
One of my friends a teacher from Interactive Multimedia and Marketing Acedemy in Denmark told me of this new computer he bought.
I think it was a Dual Xeon with tons of ram and scsi raid hd’s
Well he said to me that he did like the render time… but that the workflow was still very slow and he was a bit disappointed about that…i noticed some years ago when i got a Laptop from my school with a ATI grapich card with FireGL, the workflow with ex. particles was realtime while at my own pc (witch is 10 times faster) it was a verry slow process.
Well dose the Grapich Card have a big influence on the workflow and what is the Best Grapich Card for Combustion?
well, i assume you know, that combustion has an opengl render/display mode and a software mode (i.e., the cpu does everything).
when working in opengl, only the particle op will use opengl accelleration and the transforms of layers will benefit. other than that, the cpu will do the rest (but remember, in opengl there’s only a limited amount of layer tranfer modes). so, if you have a lot of particle layers and a lot of layers moving around in your comp, you will benefit from a fast graphic card. but because of the limitations of the opengl mode, you’d still render in software mode (which is independend of your graphic card).best,
-raykI’ve work with many PNY Quadro series and Combustion really fly with th. A really solid rock graphic card at a good price is Quadro XGL 980.
malu05 wrote:After seeing Venezolano’s topic: “Best desktop replacement to run Combustion???” i thought of something.One of my friends a teacher from Interactive Multimedia and Marketing Acedemy in Denmark told me of this new computer he bought.
I think it was a Dual Xeon with tons of ram and scsi raid hd’s
Well he said to me that he did like the render time… but that the workflow was still very slow and he was a bit disappointed about that…i noticed some years ago when i got a Laptop from my school with a ATI grapich card with FireGL, the workflow with ex. particles was realtime while at my own pc (witch is 10 times faster) it was a verry slow process.
Well dose the Grapich Card have a big influence on the workflow and what is the Best Grapich Card for Combustion?
I just recently went to a class on the new Combustion 4
I ask about the Graphics card they recommended for best results. I was told that Combustion was tested and developed using Quadro FX graphic cards. Get at least the Quadro FX 540. If you can afford it go for the FX 3400 or the 4400.
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