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- Date: Sun, 20 Nov 94 16:25:36 EST
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- Ah...sorry to bring this old topic up again but can someone who is running
- this setup give me the magic incantation needed to get LightWave and Modeler
- to display correctly using a Picasso II board.
-
- I just received it and had to settle for a board with only 1meg of ram
- onboard. The manual doesn't state what kind of ram I need to put in there and
- the writing on the ram chips that *are* there don't mean anything to me. Can
- someone tell me where I can purchase the additional meg of ram and how much I
- should expect to pay? Thanks.
-
- On that note I'd like to say that using the unbundled LightWave with the
- Picasso II is almost a dream come true. The Picasso II is quite a wonderful
- graphics card. It's great to click on the "render to Picasso" option in
- LightWave and see the polygons rendered right on the Picasso screen. Speeds
- up test renders considerably.
-
- Oddly enough when I put LightWave into the Picasso modes it seemed to slow
- down quite a bit. I'm running in a 25mhz 3000 with 16 meg of ram, 2 meg of
- chip and while every other program runs quickly at 1120x832 LightWave seems to
- bog down to being outright unproductive at even 800x600 and crawls at
- 1024x768. Is this attibutable to my only have 1 meg of ram on the card..I
- hope..
-
- Thanks for any and all information on this.
-
- For those of you wondering, I've had a Toaster in my 3000 for quite a while.
- I actually purchased the whole shebang strictly for LightWave work but figured
- that I get Tpaint, the CG and a display card with it so what the heck. Now
- I'm debating taking my Toaster out of the machine completely, loading only the
- unbundled LightWave and running on the Picasso. Using TVPaint right on the
- 24-bit screen is wonderful!
-
- I recommend the Picasso II plus LightWave unbridaled to anyone who is
- interested in strictly LW work. ADPro 2.5 looks great on the Picasso in high
- res. Forge, however, doesn't. While I can put Forge into the 1120x832 mode,
- the interface still stays at the default size..whatever that is, so it shows
- up as a 1/4 screen image! I guess we won't have to worry about that with 4.0.
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