RE: 3D acceleration

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Codaeus

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I've zero interest in gaming, but do require watching & DVD recording of movies/TV shows from Internet-TV freesites (like Hulu), and will be doing work with photo-manip software (like Photoshop CS3, GIMP, etc.). So do I really need '3D acceleration'?
 
Codaeus said:
I've zero interest in gaming, but do require watching & DVD recording of movies/TV shows from Internet-TV freesites (like Hulu), and will be doing work with photo-manip software (like Photoshop CS3, GIMP, etc.). So do I really need '3D acceleration'?
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If you are talking about the nvidia 3d vision.Then you dont need it until you want to watch 3d movies
 
Generally discrete graphics cards are needed only for gaming - which requires 3d processing by the card. 2d graphics can normally be handled by integrated graphics - if you have one of the more recent versions. The more recent ones can also handle HD. But if you have an older model integrated graphics, or a large resolution monitor, at some point you may need to add a small discrete graphics cars. You can find more info about upgrading non-gaming video cards at:

http://www.upgradevideocards.com/nongaming.html

Video cards are being adapted to aid the CPU in some types of processing. But you probably do not have to worry about that yet. Maya and Photoshop CS5 have some features optimized to take accelertate processing by using the CUDA feature on nVidia cards. Premiere CS5 and some other video editing software can also take advanage of and use the video card to accelerate processing.
 
Thanks for the info!

rockyjohn said:
Generally discrete graphics cards are needed only for gaming - which requires 3d processing by the card. 2d graphics can normally be handled by integrated graphics - if you have one of the more recent versions. The more recent ones can also handle HD. But if you have an older model integrated graphics, or a large resolution monitor, at some point you may need to add a small discrete graphics cars. You can find more info about upgrading non-gaming video cards at:

http://www.upgradevideocards.com/nongaming.html

Video cards are being adapted to aid the CPU in some types of processing. But you probably do not have to worry about that yet. Maya and Photoshop CS5 have some features optimized to take accelertate processing by using the CUDA feature on nVidia cards. Premiere CS5 and some other video editing software can also take advanage of and use the video card to accelerate processing.
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I'll be using graphics card with '3D acceleration' but it may only work when I use XP Pro...there is some doubt the 3D acceleration will function with my other two operating systems (Linux Mint 7 & PC-BSD 8). It all depends on whether I can find graphics card to satisfy all three OSs...which is looking doubtful. So I'm wondering if I need 3D acceleration for just watching Internet-TV and working with GIMP? I've no interest in onboard graphics or sound...will have discrete cards for that. And as mentioned, zero interest in gaming. I will be having computer done at custom-build shop, but I'll supply most of the components....so not looking to upgrade; I'm trying to pick optimal components that all OSs (XP Pro, PC-BSD, & linux Mint) will run on.
 
Not familiar with nVIDIA...

mihir said:
If you are talking about the nvidia 3d vision.Then you dont need it until you want to watch 3d movies
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but it has to do with lack of ATI drivers in Linux, and has to do with 'Xorg', 'Direct Rendering Manager, etc. Not sure what the problem is in PC-BSD! Its called 'Hardware 3D acceleration' on Google searches.
 
All graphics cards provide "3D acceleration" it just means it takes the job of 3D rendering off of the CPU and performs sit on the GPU instead, as it is much quicker and frees up resources.

For your uses (videos and graphics software) you will not benefit from an "all singing, all dancing" graphics card
 
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