I will soon be getting my hands on a geforce 2 mx 400 (64 mb), and I need to know how it has performed for Maya 4, on Windows NT. I have looked through many previous postings that touch on this matter, but I haven’t quite got an answer to my query. I’ve been to AW’s website, and I do realize that they don’t recommend that one should use the geforce 2 mx 400 for maya, but it seems that many of our highend3d brothers and sisters are. Is it working regardless of what AW says, or are people making modifications to their cards to allow maya to take full advantage of what the card offers? Any help with this is greatly appreciated. Thanx.
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go to the site and look under the 3D Test section. Also look at the Conclusion page. As you can see, you can get some quite good performance with a geforce 2 mx. It’s actually recommended for a budget machine.
i myself have one and I haven’t tested it with the 3D test but i will as soon as I get home today and I’ll post my results there.
I dont know about maya, but i benchmarked some of these cards under Softimage, and in my oppinion better choice is GeForce256 ( if u find DDR - better) + Quadro Patch.
MX-series (and even QuadroMX) are missing hardware full-scene-anti-aliasing, and in some cases maybe much slower than “old” GeForce256.
well i went home and I got some very impressive resuts. i ran the test and in the wireframe mode with all the display settings that the author said to turn on.
all I can remember from the test results (as I am writing this from school) was that in the wireframe test I got an impressive 18.x fps. that’s very good when compared to the cards that are supposed to be “proffessional” grade and their high prices
btw before i patched it with softquadro, i got 16.xx fps, and after wards i got 18.xx fps. that’s only in wireframe mode since i can’t remember the rest.
and what exactly do you mean there’s no full scene antialiasing for quadro 2 mx? are you talking about hardware accelerated lines? cause i have that enabled. explain more please. and also tell me where you got this info.