I’m considering upgrading my video card in order to get better performance in Blender and some games, particularly Warcraft 3. My comp starts slowing down at around 8000 faces in Blender, and with around 10-15 units on screen in W3.
I was thinking of getting the
ATI RADEON 7000 32MB DDR 32-BIT,PCI 2X/4X MPEG-2 at $70 CAD
to replace my Voodoo2 2000 16MB SDRAM, PCI. Would this give me a significant performance boost to, say, be able to run W3 at 20-25 FPS with 20-30 units onscreen?
My vital comp specs are:
Pentium II 400 Mhz
128 MB SD RAM
Windows 98
Hmm, I can’t say I’ve experimented much in the graphic card realm, besides just updating once, but I’ve heard lots of driver problems with ATI cards and Blender. Also, for a comparable price, you could probably get an NVIDIA GeForce2, which has much less driver problems and has great support for OpenGL (which drives much of Blender’s interface) and DirectX as well. That’s my dos centavos on graphics cards.