Getting frustrated with bugs... 2005-06-03 - By Eric Lampi
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I would recommend looking into your video card.
Perhaps it's the brand you're using? They're just not
all the exactly same.
I generally only buy game card from companies that
also make the pro cards, like PNY for example.
That being said, I rarely suffer the graphics bugs
you're plagued with, and I am on a consumer video
card.
Eric
--- Alan Jones <skyphyr@(protected)> wrote:
> Hi Joel,
>
> No offense, but I learnt XSI on non-certified
> hardward, often use it
> on non-certified hardware. spend 99% of my time in
> the rendertree and
> rarely stumble across a bug. What makes you so
> certain that it's not a
> case of PEBKAC?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan.
>
> On 6/3/05, Joel Blackwell <joel@(protected)>
> wrote:
> > 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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