Geforce 300? Are you kidding? I'm running a 9800GT and it still works great. The size of the scenes you guys must be working with must be unfathomable.
@ perna hahahaha, yep. Start > Run > Type dxdiag and hit ok. Click the display tap and it should tell you what video card you have. Hopefully it has more than 256mb of ram and is a Nvidia Geforce 300 or better. You can run it on slower cards but you won't get real time normal maps to display in the viewport. God help you…
Yep SpeCter is right, its the video card. I take it you're using it on a laptop? They are notorious for having horrifically slow and under powered graphic chips. Even the ultra high end gaming laptops are underpowered compared to their desktop counterparts. One of the core problems with that particular chip is that it…
I probably didn't word that as well as I should of. Min spec is any DX9 compatible card with 256mb of ram or greater. Nitrous has higher requirements for some of its advanced features like realtime lighting and display of normal maps in the viewport. For general animation and rendering (typically fewer than 1,000 objects…