By James N. Johnson (Tubal_C) (68.37.118.83) on Monday, February 03, 2003 - 10:06 am:

I know that they are totally different cards the Geforce4mx and the Geforce4Ti. I have a geforec4mx card currently. I notice its pretty slow when modeling, when I move it around in the perspective window. I working with the "Inside Lightwave 7" book and I'm on the skyscraper section sofar I just extruded the disc to 550m and it throws the break on the the perspective view. Will I be looking at buying a new card soon to handle intense work? Is the Geforce4Ti or the radion cards better and mature enough on OS X to make a diff in performance? I think I'm better off sucking it up and wait for the next OS X update or upgrade.
the system is:
Powermac g4 933Mhz
1gig RAM
3gig Swap
120gig (dual 60gig)RAID
30gig Lightwave dedicated HD
60gig System HD
Geforce4mx 64meg RAM, Dual display set-up.

By Beam Tracer (Beamtracer) (203.109.241.109) on Monday, February 03, 2003 - 03:29 pm:

OS X 10.2.4 is due for imminent release. This OS update contains new drivers for nVidea and ATI cards, so it could change how they compare with each other.

By James N. Johnson (Tubal_C) (68.37.118.83) on Tuesday, February 04, 2003 - 06:17 am:

A reboot made it all better.

By David Hatch (Dhatch01) (136.205.16.4) on Thursday, February 06, 2003 - 05:24 pm:

You might want to use the system resource monitor to see if there is a resource hog taking up all of your cpu time. I used to have WeatherPop installed, till I noticed that it would occasionally take over 98% of the system's resouces, leaving Lightwave performing like a slug. I've heard of other apps that have the same resource-hogging bug.

By Nigel Hendrickson (Soulrebel) (66.108.253.249) on Friday, February 07, 2003 - 01:54 pm:

I hope you're right about that, Beam. I wonder if Maya's problems on 10.2.3 had anything to do with them FINALLY looking into the driver situation for the GF4Ti? Naaah... probably not. ;-)