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When GPU is activated I get a blank section top and bottom of the image.
See below. Also crashes a lot with GPU activated?
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Yes, the gpu is used to make a fast preview, but the zenith and nadir zone is missing with this method. We'll try to find a patch for that.
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GPU tends to be more sensible to crash, because we now are dependent on drivers issue ( and there are a lot of them we found that out ).
So be sure you really have the last drivers version. Nvidia 180.* at least, ATI : catalyst 9.1 at least.
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signmaster wrote:
When GPU is activated I get a blank section top and bottom of the image.
See below.
Alaxandre explained this - I agree it's irritating but it will render OK though.
Also crashes a lot with GPU activated?
My system seem pretty stable with GPU enabled - Dell T3400, MSI Nvidia PCIe 8000GTS 320MB, Windows XP Pro SP3 32-bit.
What is your system configuration?
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I am running a Sony VAIO notebook with a NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 video card and 2 gig of ram. I have purchased a new custom build i7 PC but it has been a real lemon back for repair about 5 times and over the 2 months that I have had it all I have done is load software.
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signmaster wrote:
I am running a Sony VAIO notebook with a NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 video card and 2 gig of ram.
Hmmm. Do you have the latest Nvidia driver installed?
How much video RAM does it have?
Does the system pass all the OpenGL GPU tests?:
http://www.autopano.net/forum/p43415-20 … -33#p43415
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I have the latest driver by Sony, 512K memory.
I ran the tests and it fails test 1. so looks like no GPU mode on this PC. My new PC should be fixed next week, hope it works OK on that.
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Good point to remember--sometimes large vendors get a special version of a video card and use different drivers. I had this problem with a Dell system--I let Windows Update load a new driver, and spent a day recovering.
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I too am seeing different results from the preview to the render. though I really like the fun wacky results the preview made, is there anyway to render it in preview mode?
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pgielen wrote:
So which graphics card would you recommend now for a Windows Vista 32 desktop system? I have a Nvidia 5400 which does not perform well enough for this live view feature.
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I have a MSI Nvidia 8800GTs with 320MB video RAM. It works fine with Windows XP 32-bit and APG.
I bought it used for about £50.
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The very low end would be 8600GT, which you can find for 50 bucks probably... I'd recommend at least 9800GT, which should be more than enough for some time now and it also performs great in Photoshop with GPU enabled. If you plan to play games too, get some 260 - it's not that much more expensive!
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[bo] wrote:
The very low end would be 8600GT, which you can find for 50 bucks probably... I'd recommend at least 9800GT, which should be more than enough for some time now and it also performs great in Photoshop with GPU enabled. If you plan to play games too, get some 260 - it's not that much more expensive!
Thanks, at about 100 euros, the 9800GT is reasonably priced. So how about notebooks? My notebook needs replacing now that the battery is dead and Window (Vista as well as Windows 7RC) is irritatingly sllllooooowww. Since Autopano (apart maybe from Photohop) is the only app I use that uses the graphics card extensively, I'd like to find a notebook that will work perfectly with Autopano pro 2.
Pierre
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Any recent (model from 2009) laptop with separate video card should do the trick, I guess... For example, the Dell Studio 1537 comes with Radeon 3450, which is very common in laptops of this (cheap) class and has separate video memory (ie does not use system RAM for video purposes).
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