[PCB_FORUM] Re: Allegro 16.0 Graphics

Initially, I had display issues with Allegro 16.0 but once I updated the 
display driver things stabilized and it seems to run fine now.

 

Here are the details of my PC Setup:

 

Operating System: Windows XP

Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3.20GHz

System Memory: 2.00GB

L2 Cache Size: 512MB 

 

Graphics Card: NVIDIA Quadro FX 3000

Bus: AGP 8X

Resolution: 1600x1200

Dedicated Video RAM: 256MB

Color Quality: Highest (32bit)

 

By no means is this the fastest and best machine you could buy today but it 
work well with Allegro 16.0 and Pro-E Wildfire without skipping a beat.

 

It seems a High-End Graphics card with at least 256MB dedicated memory with at 
least 2 GB System Memory does the trick.  (Of course the more memory the 
better.)

 

Also if you have Allegro 16.0 loaded somewhere you could check out the manual 
"Allegro Platform System Requirements" in the documentation which will give you 
lots of detail on the system and graphics card configurations that Cadence 
recommends.

Hope this helps,
Michael Catrambone
UTStarcom, Inc.

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From: icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of richard moffat
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 4:38 PM
To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [PCB_FORUM] Re: Allegro 16.0 Graphics

 

Hi

 

We've got NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT cards.  They work well.

 

However, I'd still like to get other's comments on a post I sent to this group 
on 24-Jul-07.

 

OpenGL is good, but it takes away a bit as well.



>>> On 8/08/2007 at 11:38 p.m., in message <46B9AB32.1050605@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, 
>>> J-Charles TEYSSIER <jcteyssier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I discuss with hotline guy  couple weeks ago and allegro use now opengl to 
display.
Look at graphics cards with good support of opengl (maybe matrox?)

Jean-Charles

Peter Hughes a écrit : 

Hi All,

 

We are currently looking at new computers for Allegro 16.0. What has been the 
experience of the forum with the new graphics in 16.0. We have tried a Sapphire 
Radeon X1550 Series (512Mb) graphics card but we are not impressed with the 
results. If the screen is busy then the system is very jerky.

 

What make/type of graphics card is recommended for 16.0?

 

Rgrds

 

Peter Hughes,

PCB Designer,

Concurrent Technologies,

4 Gilberd Close,

Newcomen Way,

Colchester,

Essex,

CO4 4WN.

Tel: +44 1206 752626

Fax: +44 1206 751116

 

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