[visionegg] Re: inexpensive pc

Hi Damian,

the vision-egg prides itself being able to run on "relatively inexpensive" pcs. We have tried using this on a pc with 32MB of RAM through a diamond stealth 2500 video card and the images stutter across the screen.

What I found after a brief search on the Diamond Stealth 2500: it's from 1998, has no hardware OpenGL acceleration, and only 2MB video RAM. If that is true, it would explain the poor performance on your machine. (What does the OpenGL Renderer/Version string say in the VisionEgg.log file?)

In fact, if your machine (what processor?) has 32 MB RAM total, I'm impressed that it runs at all! Most video cards these days come with at least that much RAM.

What are the minimal requirements of the vision-egg software??

I think any new PC you can buy today would be fine. (My impression is that you would have to try hard to find a desktop machine with less than a 1.5 GHz Pentium 4.) Add a geForce4 MX for less than US$50, and you'll be set to go. Specifying absolute minimum requirements would be difficult -- as you've proven, it seems to run on just about anything, but the definition of acceptable performance will be the ultimate guide for minimum hardware. The first thing to do is to get a decent OpenGL graphics card.

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