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 2/18/2009 12:48 PM
 
 Modified By Lars Wernlund  on 6/1/2009 10:25:30 AM
johnp wrote
Hi Lasse,

As an update to your requirements, I'm very pleased (relieved!) to report that Capture Polar (with the Polar Graphics) appears to work extremely well on an ATI graphics card.

I have upgraded a lab full of iMacs dual-booting MacOS and Windows and after a certain amount of ATI Driver hackery have a very functional result.

If anyone has an iMac and is having problems with getting the graphics to function, the reason is that Apple's own, supplied drivers are actually incorrect! If you'd like to know how I went about correcting them, let me know and I'll happily share the info.

However, short of fullscreen vsualisation being a bit slow, I'm pleased to say that an iMac with 256MB ATI Graphics (Core2 Duo 2.4GHz, 2GB RAM) is perfectly capable of running Polar Graphics when appropriately 'persuaded'.

Oh yes, and XP, not Vista.

Hope this helps,

-john


Hi John!

I got a brand new MacBook Pro with dual display adapters (NVIDIA GeForce 9400M and 9600M GT with 512MB). I got windows XP installed and I still cant believe that when I fullscreen my stage setup in capture -  a major lag comes around. Ive updated newest drivers with Driver Genious witch updates all the drivers, not just display drivers.. My display settings (in Nvidia control panel) are in default. And I dont even have a firewall or anti-virus witch could slow the system down. Do you have any tips how to "hack" the drivers or the system to work fully in fullscreen? Capture works fine when its not in fullscreen.

Specs: MacBook Pro 2,8GHz, 4GB RAM DDR3, hard-drive with 7200 RPM, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M and 9600M GT with 512MB of GDDR3 memory, Windows XP SP3 32bit and newest windows updates.

Please reply to me via email: panu.pikkuaho@gmail.com

Thanks!
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 5/22/2011 5:04 PM
 
Flo wrote:
Hello Capture-Team,

In order not to open a new thread, I take this one to ask some quesions about the hardware requirements of capture polar.
I'planning to get a Polar Basic the next weeks. But I still need some hardware for the software.
As lighting-design is not my main job and I still have to get a magicQ pc wing, the costs for the hardware should be not too high.
I could get a Mobile Workstation Dell Precison M90 for an affordable price.
So I could use it not only in my working room with the TFTs but also in my living room with the beamer, in order to have it comfortable while creating designs.
It has a 2.3 GHz Core2Duo with 2GB Ram and a Nvidia Quadro FX2500M with 512MB of RAM and Win XP
So my question is: Is this Workstation good enough to run the software properly?
Thanks in advance for your help.

Best regards,
lighting


I'm in a similar situation: lighting-design is not at the moment my main job. Even though i'm going to buy a Capture polar Smartsoft Edition.
This is my pc:

Windows 7 professional 32 bit
Pentium IV 2,93 ghz
1,25 GB Ram
Ati Radeon x300 128 mb

I'd like to know if would be enough upgrading my RAM at 2 GB and buyng a new Video card (could you please suggest me one?) to make Capture run properly. I think I'll use no more than 12 moving heads and 40 Par/PC in my shows.
Thanks in advance for your help.
P.S. Sorry for my english!
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 5/23/2011 9:18 AM
 
Hi Cristiano,

It's always difficult to say, but I will try to make an educated guess. Upgrading to 2GB ram is definitely a good idea, if only for Windows sake. I'm a bit worried about the graphics card though, my gut feeling is that you will need to upgrade that. I would recommend downloading and trying the demo with your current configuration first as a benchmark!



Regards,
Lars Wernlund, The Capture Team
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 5/24/2011 2:37 PM
 
I'm going to buy 2Gb RAM.
About the video Card, do you think that this one would be enough for me?

Point Of View Geforce 8400gs 1gb Ddr3 Hdmi Fan Dvi/Hdmi/D-Sub
- Core Clock: 589 Mhz
- Memory Clock 1000 Mhz
- RAMDAC: Dual 400 Mhz
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 5/26/2011 4:18 PM
 
Hi Cristiano,

I believe that should get you quite far, yes!




Regards,
Lars Wernlund, The Capture Team
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