Qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL® graphics card for Apple?


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Qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL® graphics card for Apple?
by Vincent Strader on Nov 29, 2008 at 8:37:00 pm

I'm getting a combustion upgrade for my Apple at work. In the past it never worked too well. On the Windows NT system, the place of employment I worked at would not purchase an Open GL card for some reason. Then we got an Apple and the Combustion upgrade for it (C3). Open GL was a confusing thing for some people to understand at the place we got the Apple from and for my employers. We're getting another Apple upgrade and another upgrade of Combustion.

I'm trying to let them know that without the proper open GL support getting an upgrade would be useless.

Can somebody help me with some info. , or a way to explain to the management where I work that I need to get an Open GL card this time for the program to be worth anything? Or does the newewst G5s already cover all issues? I don't have the upgrade sheet with me right now, but when I look at it again I'll show what graphics card we're getting for the system.

I dont know how to explain things simply to managers I guess, because I haven't been able to make them understand "WITHOUT OPEN GL, IT NO WORKIE RIGHT!" :)

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Re: Qualified hardware-accelerated OpenGL® graphics card for Apple?
by Alan Okey on Dec 2, 2008 at 12:42:12 am

Things You Should Know:

Neither Combustion 4 nor Combustion 2008 are certified to run on Mac OS X v10.5 (Leopard), which is the most current Mac OS.

When running on Mac OS X v10.5 (Leopard), both Combustion 4 and 2008 crash when exiting the application or finishing a render.

The Mac versions of Combustion 4 and 2008 cannot currently render 10-bit Quicktime movies.

Autodesk has not released any patches to fix these issues, nor have they certified Combustion 4 or 2008 for use with Mac OS X v10.5 (Leopard).

As for Autodesk's officially supported Mac graphics options, that's anyone's guess - I defy you to find current information on the Combustion website.

You're better off going with an upgraded graphics card on the latest Mac Pros, preferably the ATI Radeon HD 3870:

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/ATI%20Technologies/100435928/

Apple's ATI drivers are consistently better optimized than their nVidia drivers, and the ATI cards are the ones they recommend for their Pro Apps like Motion, Color and Final Cut Pro.

More info here:

http://www.barefeats.com/harper16.html

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