GeForce3 Ti Stability under Maya 4/Win2K?

[mweier]

Have you tried running a GeForce 3 Ti200 or Ti500 with Maya 4 under Win2K? If so, I'd love your feedback!

In particular, there's been a lot of talk about tweaking GF's into comparable Quadros. What I want to know is whether I'll be happy if I don't bother with any of that.

-Are there any glaring incompatibilities (functions/panels that just won't work, etc?

-Does it seem stable?

-If you've tweaked it into a Quadro DCC, exactly what steps are required? It seems SoftQuadro did the trick for GF256 & GF2, but are soldering irons now required? I can't find anywhere that outlines the steps...

I assume A|W decided not to "authorize" these for a reason, but I'm trying to determine if the reason is good enough to prevent me from buying one or whether it's simply a means of scratching the backs of high-end card manufacturers....

[1000101-]

These particular cards work fairly well; I have a ti500 in one of my machines here. I did the softquadro (make sure you use drivers before 23.11) mod to it and maya runs somehwat better. Its also very stable; haven't seen a video card related crash in a while. Some driver versions do crop up with a few visual errors; but nothing major. Ussually doing a softquadro or different driver revision fixes it. (ex for me texture view would display images as massive white boxes under 23.11; updating to 26.XX+ leaked drivers fixed this issue)
so you should be good to go..

good luck there mate.

[tzaunie]

I'm confused -- you said to make sure to use drivers before 23.11, and then you said that 26.xx fixed an issue. Could you clarify?

Thanks,

Larry

[1000101-]

if your going to softquadro your card; you have to do it on drivers 23.11 or previous.
if you don't softquadro; later driver versions can fix a fw visual errors.