Video card for NewBlue 3D titling

Devonian wrote on 12/15/2011, 4:11 AM

I have a Gigabyte GA-G41MT-D3 motherboard with on board intel G41 graphics which does not allow the use of the 3D titling plug in.
Will one of the low cost (~£25 on e-bay) be good enough to run this plug in or do I need an expensive card. Can anyone suggest a low cost card that they know works? This only for private use and I don't want to spend unnecessary money.

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jetdv wrote on 12/15/2011, 8:57 AM

Current NVidia and AMD cards should work fine.

rdandrea wrote on 12/15/2011, 10:06 AM

They SHOULD, but don't assume it. My GEForce 9600 GSO doesn't show up as CUDA-enabled. For GPU-assisted rendering with an NVIDIA, Vegas requires a card that's rated at least 2.0 on this page:

http://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-gpus

I don't know about AMD cards as I don't have one.

Devonian wrote on 12/15/2011, 11:13 AM

Unfortunately I had ordered a 8400gs card from CCL before seeing the last reply. If it is too slow I'll have to return it for a faster card. This shouldn't be a problem as CCL are usually pretty good. Thanks for the help anyway.

Markk655 wrote on 12/15/2011, 12:01 PM

I have a GT240 that is rated 1.2 and works fine for CUDA rendering.

Devonian wrote on 12/17/2011, 11:59 AM

I don't know about CUDA rendering but so far the card seems to work OK. I've had several crashes - probably because I'm trying to do something that is not allowed and they seem to be getting less frequent as I go up the steep learning curve.
The card is a Sparkle GeForce 8400GS with driver 285.58 for WinXP.
Thanks for all the help.