[vtkusers] information on pci express graphics cards compatibility

[Peter Schmitt]

I agree with Tom.  Also, I have had better luck with NVidia drivers in
Linux and I have heard that ATI drivers can be kind of tricky to set
up on Linux.

I bet you could get a PCI-Express NVidia 6600 or 6800 for a reasonable price.

-Pete


On 6/29/05, tom fogal <tfogal at apollo.sr.unh.edu> wrote:
>  <02B0B221F71925499396626DEAE714754A6CFE at medsrv.med.upatras.gr>"George Kagadis,
>  PhD" writes:
> > I can not find any piece of information regarding the compatibility with
> > the new pci express graphics cards.
> 
> VTK uses opengl under the hood. It will be compatible with any card
> which supports accelerated OpenGL.
> There are also some volume rendering cards that, IIRC, are used by VTK
> directly... not sure on that though.
> 
> >
> >Which pci express graphics card do you recommend (that will work fine in
> >linux and with vtk applications)?
> >
> 
> On a linux machine, I would stick to nvidia or ATI. I've personally
> never used ATI's products so I can't comment on them, but nvidia is
> pretty good about drivers / support.
> Just my $0.02 though.
> 
> -tom
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-- 
Pete