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Introduction
We strongly recommend graphics cards offering true OpenGL hardware
acceleration with ICD support for Windows applications. If you intend
to run at high screen resolutions, a card with a minimum of 128Mb
of RAM onboard will be required.
Although there are a large number of different graphics card manufacturers,
there are a much smaller number of graphics processor manufacturers,
and all graphics cards are based around one of these processors.
If you experience graphics problems on your PC when using EdgeCAM
please ensure that you are using the latest graphics driver for
your card. If the problems persist, please contact our service team,
providing a detailed description of the problem, information on
your PC (make and model) and your graphics card.
Supported
cards
| ATI |
nVIDIA |
| Radeon 9xxx series * |
GeForce4 Ti series |
| Radeon X series * |
GeForce FX series * |
| Radeon HD Series |
GeForce 6 series * |
| Fire GL X series |
GeForce 7 series |
| Fire GL Z series |
GeForce 8 Series |
| Fire GL V series |
Quadro 4 series |
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Quadro FX series |
Notebooks
| ATI |
nVIDIA |
| Radeon X series * |
GeForce FX series * |
| Fire GL T series |
Quadro 4 series |
| Fire GL V series |
Quadro FX series |
* Although the low end cards within these
series will work, performance can be affected. We therefore recommend
you select a mid to high end card for these series.
Unsupported
Intel integrated graphic chips (Intel Extreme)
S3 (Pro Savage, Twister)
Matrox Millennium
SIS chipsets
nVIDIA TNT, TNT2 series
nVIDIA MX cards
ATI Rage series
Note: Any card older than three years is likely
to have performance issues.
General
tips
Graphic chips on motherboards are generally underpowered and can
share the system RAM to boost their own memory which reduces the
amount of available RAM to applications such as EdgeCAM.
Try to avoid graphic cards that share system RAM as they are generally
low end cards that save money by reducing the amount of onboard
memory. These types of cards are sometimes called TurboCache or
HyperMemory.
High end “gamer” or “enthusiast” cards deliver
a similar performance to the “professional” cards but
at a lower price.
Link
to Graphics Cards FAQ page
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