Getting frustrated with bugs... 2005-06-03 - By robert
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Hi Joel ,
Have you considered looking on e-bay or better still trying
the local computer repair shops they might have something you want .... I
still use my quadro 980 that I purchased from e-bay for 117 pounds ! all
those yrs ago.
Kind regards
rob
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From: "Joel Blackwell" <joel@(protected)>
To: <XSI@(protected)>
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 11:39 AM
Subject: Getting frustrated with bugs...
> I'm considering selling XSI, mainly because I'm finding it hard to learn
> the program, due to the fact I run into a bug every few minutes when
> working with shaders. Every time I post about the problems (on a
> forum), someone pipes up and tells me something like, "You must have
> missed something." or, "The problem must be with your graphics card."
> Perhaps either one of those could be true, since I'm not using a
> certified card, and I'm no XSI know-it-all. However, no one seems to
> care if the problem could actually be worth looking to. My posts just
> disappear into nothingness, never to be seen again. Seemingly, my only
> solution I have is- risk paying some money for a certified card (which
> is beyond my price range at the moment) that may not fix the problems
> I've been seeing anyway.
>
> This is obviously a great community for people who work in a
> professional environment, and have money to throw around everywhere for
> proper support and the hardware to suit a professional pipeline. But,
> for people like myself, XSI seems more and more the poorer program to go
> with. Softimage may be doing everything they can to increase their
> userbase, but the program just isn't designed for the average person...
> and right now, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. I mean, why develop a
> program for certified (non-gamer) cards, and then aim the program at mod
> makers for games? It just doesn't make any sense.
>
> That aside, does anyone have some advice for me? Last time I posted on
> this mailing list everyone tried to kill me as the marauding invader
> from the land of Truespace (if anyone remembers that fiasco). This
> time, I'm hopeful that won't happen again, and someone will help me get
> this program working as it should. Or, the Softimage crew will actually
> note down some bugs to be fixed, so I don't have to sell XSI and move
> onto something that works.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Joel
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