reply from Bruce Allen:

"For the 'science' part of the work this should do well. If you want the graphics to run smoothly and fast you should check that the graphics card supports 'accelerated GL graphics'".

Cheeers,
Bruce

> reply from Bruce Allen:
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> "For the 'science' part of the work this should do well. If you want the
> graphics to run smoothly and fast you should check that the graphics card
> supports 'accelerated GL graphics'".
>
> Cheeers,
> Bruce
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>
>
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Almost forgot, one of the users replied too...
"Shouldn't be a problem. I've got a more basic box with Athlon 2400 which isn't that much faster, and it runs it with no problem. Even the long work units."

thx, and a Radeon 9600 is a little old, but it's ATI's equivalent to a GeForce FX (pre-6800). Yeah, it's a full fledged 3D accelerator, not a Geforce FX 6800 GT, ultra, or a Radeon x800 however (one gen earlier).

Though it wasn't a question of whether my comp would be "fast enough" that I was mentioning, just that a few pieces of software have had issues on this comp. AKA, black screen of death, hard lock issues where the ATX power switch won't even work. Just a few code incompatibility issues I run into from time to time, which if they come up might require the software be patched to fix software incompatibility issues. Seldom comes up on most things.

Keep in mind wrt this that nForce was their first generation hardware and I was an early adopter. There were more then a few BIOS fixes/driver updates at first as nVidia was learning from there then new entrance into the chipset areana.

Oh, and BTW, sometimes from a debugging standpoint a more "stripped down box" can make the job easier. Fewer things that could have a potential compatibility/interaction problem. When Diablo II had issues on an old system (long before this one) and I wasn't sure what was up...I stripped everything out the the comp case except the bare essentials. I didn't even leave a floppy drive in. Plan, add things back one by one until a prob results. When a stripped down (only 1 module of RAM, CPU, mobo, gfx card, 1 CD, and the needed HD) didn't make it go away...made a bug report. Turned out that the given version of their software had incompatibility issues with certain GeForce cards...they fixed it in the next software patch.

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