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jettpinc · junior member Member # Joined: 22 Nov 2004 Posts: 3

I'm wondering if the vid card you have has anything to do with the efficiency of photoshop or painter, refresh rates maybe?

thinking about getting a radeon 9800 pro since i'm also a gamer.

thanks.

Yarik · Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 5:27 pm

I only suggest getting an upgrade of your card for gaming purposes. I have a
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G-FX card specs:
GeForce2 MX200 with 32MB SDRAM

System Specs:
2.0 GHz
512 SDRAM

And PS and Painter work in excellent conditions on my pc.

jettpinc · junior member Member # Joined: 22 Nov 2004 Posts: 3

well i was wondering if it would improve how ps or painter works becase i've found that with my tablet sometimes it lags when i make a stroke.

i dont know if this is due to graphics card or what tho

specs
2.0 Ghz
~ 1GB RAM
integrated vid card

perhaps it's tablet related because my tablet isn't really from a brand that i've heard of.
this is what i have http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5ede/

thanks

balistic · Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 8:40 pm

It probably has nothing to do with your graphics card. It could have something to do with your tablet . . . that's not a brand I've heard of. Usually though, processor speed has the greatest impact on painting performance.

Were you trying to paint with a very large brush, or on a very high-resolution image? If you're using large brushes on high-res images, try turning off antialiasing, and turning down your brush spacing. This will make the brush respond a little quicker, with some sacrifice in stroke quality.

It could also be that you have a lot of processes running in the background, or that your hard drive needs to be defragmented.
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stacy · Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 11:40 pm

It also has to do with your virtual memory,
how fast your hard drive is,
whether you have enough space for your scratch disk,
whether it's on a different drive or partition than the application,
and whether you've allocated enough space for you pagefile.sys.

Putting a couple of matched el-cheapo 7200 uata 100s in raid-0
would amaze you.

I'd get a couple of 10k harddrives before I'd ever pop for
an expensive video card or replace a perfectly good 2GHz processor.

Jin · Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 12:33 am

B0b · Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 3:32 am

redraw has to do with a fast RAMDAC, most modern cards are 300MHz or faster, so you shouldn't have any trouble with the 9800 Smile

intergrated video SUX, its slow, it takes a chunk of your system RAM and you'd be better off buying a cheap 2D card and disabling the onboard..

jettpinc · junior member Member # Joined: 22 Nov 2004 Posts: 3

mm thanks a bunch guys. my main concern really wasn't my laggyness in ps/painter but i was trying to decide between buying an ipod and a vid card. so i was also wondering what other pros the vid card would give me.

i think i'll get the 9800 and if the problems persist, i'll try some of the things you guys mentioned

thanks again
jett.