will Blend run/render on win98 w/ savage4 card?

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hi im a first timer here. ive always been fascinated with GNU and such. Im familiar with Gimp and some other programs and im also and electronic music producer.

I now would like to get into 3d amination. Ive searched the forums and also checked the various blender sites to check for support for a savage 4 card on win 98 . I would like to know if blender runs correctly before i go out and buy the books and such to teach myself.

I noticed that at blender3d that the program runs but poorly on savage 4 on win nt but its untested on 98.

I have loaded the program and the windows runs fine, but i havent found any sort of temples or something where i can test how it runs. i also have the latest drivers and the open gl drivers already installed. for my savage 4 card

if someone could give me some nice advice it would be much appreciated.

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if you can minimize and restore the Blender window without crashing (That’s what it does here, SuperSavage S4, XP), you should be pretty much alright.

Martin

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Go through some of the tutorials and do some modelling!
http://www.elYsiun.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4624

If everything works, you can buy the books.

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Hi Sup909, nice to meet another music programmer.

I run Blender on a Savage 4 quite often and have encountered a few problems. It can’t draw all of the GUI, baffles me completely as I have the latest drivers etc. but don’t let this put you off, I’m sure it’s just an isolated case.

Welcome to elYsiun,

Sonix.

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thanks a ton for the advice guys. yeah the main screen loads correctly and there doesnt seem to be any distortion and such. i will test out some of the examples you linked to and see how they work