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| 174644 | 2003-09-11 12:25:00 | Not being a games person I've never paid too much attention to the graphics side of things (screen large enough to read without squinting is roughly my limit). I now have a piece of software that requires: 4 MB VRAM video card. Please excuse my ignorance but does a "Nvidia GeForce2 MX 100/200" meet this requirement? |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 174645 | 2003-09-11 12:57:00 | The MX should easily exceed the ram requirements, is it an MX that you have now or are you intending to get a card? 4MB isn't much with video cards shipping commonley providing 64, 128 and upto 256MB. As for VRAM I doubt your app will care too much if its that or SGRAM or RDRAM which are also ram types that are used on video cards. HTH Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 174646 | 2003-09-11 22:22:00 | Hi Murray, Having a little trouble with new software for video editing. The fine print indicated that my, somewhat aging, celeron should be OK. The even finer print showed that this was for still memory stick photos not the tape. Next step was to check out my other half's somewhat later machine. It seems to work on that but only for short downloads from the camera - the 2 minute download was a bit jerky. Thus the request for info about the existing graphics card. His system seems to meet the minimum specs. There's also the question of access (he's bound to want to play silly games whilst I want to something intellegent like video editing) so it looks like I'll have to contemplate an upgrade. |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 174647 | 2003-09-12 00:13:00 | The nvidia geforce2 you have is a pretty good card, and it has 32mb of ram because I used to have one myself. Try closing some apps while working on your video. E.g disable your antivirus, that should speed some things up a bit. |
PoWa. (3243) | ||
| 174648 | 2003-09-12 01:10:00 | How much RAM does your PC have, because capturing on anything with less than 128 is not ideal at all! Also, you're going to want as little else going as possible.. even killing Anti-Virus software may help, so your system can work as hard as possible capturing it and not worry about viruses (You should be sweet if you're only capturing, right?! ;-)) If you have Win2K or XP, then hit Ctrl + Shift + Esc and and find the process and increase its priority to High! That'll squeeze out a lil extra juice from it! What speed are the processors? Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 174649 | 2003-09-12 02:07:00 | > You should be sweet if you're only capturing, right?! Nope - the video camera could have filmed the flu virus, which would then be transfered from the pc via the camera. |
PoWa. (3243) | ||
| 174650 | 2003-09-12 02:23:00 | Hmm.. Good point.. Give it a couple of Panadol and put it in bed for a day or two before you try anything Heather ;-) | Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 174651 | 2003-09-12 09:44:00 | Damn... that could be it! One of the tapes was used to film my daughter in hospital. Not flu though - car accident. Maybe it's gone out in sympathy? Shall I swipe some of her morphine for it? | Heather P (163) | ||
| 174652 | 2003-09-12 10:20:00 | In answer to the RAM etc my other half's computer has: Processor: AMD Duron MMX 3DNow 800MHz Memory: 256 Mb Graphics Card: The GeForce one OS: Win 98SE Hard Disk: stacks of room The software requires: Processor: 500MHz Pentium III or faster (800MHz or faster recommended) Memory: 64 Mb or more Graphics Card: 4 Mb VRAM video card (screen res is OK too) OS: Win 98SE or better Hard Disk: 1GB So basically it meets requirements. What I hadn't considered though was all the stuff running in the background (thanks Chilling) so I'll go shut down some of it and see how I get on. Mind you it still doesn't resolve the problem - what to do when he gets bored with the TV and heads up to play some silly game... |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 174653 | 2003-09-12 11:11:00 | n vidia uses shared memory i ended up putting in a nother memory module i think 500mb of ram is std today fixed my problems | ferrite (4221) | ||
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