[geeks] T H E??b r i Q

[Shawn Wallbridge]

In our shop, the 2D machines (mostly running Photoshop and Digital Fusion)
have 2GB of memory, where our 3D machines running 3D Studio Max, Maya, and
Houdini have 1GB of memory. For the 3D machines processor is the main
bottleneck, with 2D it is ram.

shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
Of Brian Hechinger
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 1:27 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [geeks] T H E??b r i Q


On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:21:54AM -0400, joshua d boyd wrote:
>
> Yeah, but what I really need is better video acceleration.  This will
> probably take the form of getting an old SGI (hey, blender runs on Irix
> 5.3 for R3k, and it is probably faster on that then a PC 20x faster, but
> with out video acceleration), waiting till I can get a newer SGI
> (hopefully I'll keep this job part time in the fall, then I probably will
> be able to afford that), or finding someone who can fix the video
> acceleration on my XFree install for me.  Because, having just enough ram
> isn't as bad as having to use software rendering.

but what good is hardware acceleration if you don't have enough ram to hold
everything?  disks are SLOW and so if you can't keep everything in fast RAM
then what's the point?  or is my lack of understanding of this field so
great
that i can't just apply common sense to it?

> I wonder what version of OpenGL is used on Irix 5.3... I know that even
> Irix 6.2 is a touch out of date (don't remeber version number, but it is a
> version from when texturing is still viewed as an extension).

maybe i could be convinced to get 5.3 on the PI 4d and see.  although i'm
missing a monitor and keyboard for it, i can still install headless, and i
should be able to tell you what version it's got?

you'd have to help me out, i'm NOT and IRIX user.

-brian
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