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Anwar Al-Mallah
Intermediate Member
Username: Anwar
Post Number: 77
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 26, 2007 - 09:34 am: | 
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Zweb,
Can you say at this time that there are no issues with formZ 6.1 32 and 64 bit on corresponding 32/64 bit versions of Windows Vista?
Thanks,
Anwar |
Bernd Meissner
Junior Member
Username: Bmeissner
Post Number: 42
Registered: 04-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 26, 2007 - 10:04 am: |
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Anwar,
completely independant from FormZ: isn't the lack of (real) OpenGL support (yes, the M$ idiots want to feature DirectX instead) a good reason NOT to use Vista for any 3D application?
I've seen OGL benchmarks in a C4D forum which say: use XP... or get a Mac ;-)
Bernd |
support@formZ.com
Moderator
Username: Tech
Post Number: 1411
Registered: 04-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 26, 2007 - 10:04 am: |
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Anwar,
There are a few cosmetic issues that are being corrected, but there are no known issues that should impede functionality. Of course Vista is relatively new, and we will probably not know for sure that there are "no" issues until it has been more extensively tested in the field.
ZWebTech Support |
Anwar Al-Mallah
Intermediate Member
Username: Anwar
Post Number: 78
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 26, 2007 - 11:25 am: |
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Well, I think that ADS should support DirectX. 3DS Max does. I suppose someone could write a plug-in renderer for this (a little beyond me at the moment, maybe someday). |
Bernd Meissner
Junior Member
Username: Bmeissner
Post Number: 43
Registered: 04-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 26, 2007 - 12:40 pm: |
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I'm not sure if a whole multiplatform industry (all CAD Systems on Win, Mac, Unix, Linux) should follow another M$ so-called-standard, which originally has been developed for 3D games (!). But that's just my opinion, of course ;-)
Bernd |
Silicon
New member
Username: Treebeard
Post Number: 10
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, January 26, 2007 - 04:59 pm: |
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Bernd,
The latest news I heard was that this issue is going to be corrected before the initial release.
http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=34586 |
Silicon
New member
Username: Treebeard
Post Number: 11
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Friday, January 26, 2007 - 05:17 pm: |
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Anwar,
In general, the capabilities of opengl and Direct3D are equivalent. The advantage of opengl for ADS is that it is crossplatform so the same code in the display layer can be used on mac and windows.
Treebeard |
robert smith
New member
Username: Bob
Post Number: 18
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, January 27, 2007 - 08:40 am: |
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I tried the formZ Demo on Vista and it looked fine. OpenGL was good too (although I didn't test it with a very large model).
While vista looks pretty cool, I bet there are going to be lots of headaches in the first few months (especially with drivers) so even if formZ works well, I think I'll stick with XP (or OS X) and maybe upgrade my XP box later this spring... |
Ulrich Kirchhoff
Intermediate Member
Username: Uki
Post Number: 77
Registered: 09-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, January 27, 2007 - 10:27 am: |
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Robert,
Basically there are are two main differences between Dos and Mac: Dos is very dependent on the Graphic Card, but used to be stronger (because of the graphic card) with OGL. This will change with OSX.5.
OSX is less dependent on the graphic card and way better with multitasking.
So there is no OR in fact but an either in the choice of the OS. |
