I was talking with an artist at work about this as he was trying to decide what card to get and after I did some reading I found out this. 1: Workstation cards have open ended code that will allow you to change the way the card will handle information. Along with a programmer you can get the card to do just about anything…
Very soon with the advancements of CUDA I think we're going to start seeing the GPU cores being borrowed for rendering. I thought I read somewhere that nvidia dropped gelato in favor of working with mental ray or something...interesting stuff I think is going to happen soon... I have a 9800GTX myself. It does everything I…
Even when viewing in smooth + highlight mode, a mesh will turn to a red wireframe and crash soon after if the video card and ram amount is not capable. I will often times put a camera zoomed in on a piece of mesh so the scene isn't loading the entire thing at one shot upon file bootup. Then switch to perspective from that…