IBM Laptop

[Simtech]

A customer of mine is looking to install Mastercam on an IBM laptop with an ATI Fire GL 64Mb video card.

 

Does anyone have any experience with this model of video card.

 

Thanks!

 

Luc Simoneau

[Bullines]

All I can say is

[the1yyz]

So far I haven't had good luck making Mastercam play nice with the ATI cards in general.

Never tried the Fire GL.

[Brent Wilkerson]

At work I have an ATI Fire GL 8800.

 

It works quite well. Haven't had any real probs with it.

[Camdude®]

+1 bullines.

i had a lot of trouble with ATI cards in my training center. swapped over the nvidia chip sets and all is good. believe it or not another card that was a pesky little problem for us was the 3d labs oxygen cards. ran mastercam well but would crash Verify consistently.

just my .002 U.S.

[Simtech]

Thanks all for your replys.

 

We all know, I hope, that the ATI is almost a four letter word for Mastercam, even our receptionist ask's our customer's calling for tech support if they have an ATI card if it's a graphics problem

 

Seems that the newer cards (ATI Fire GL) might be a better match for the Open GL support. I personnally would stay away from it but for my customer that has the IBM laptop, he can't (I think) change the graphics card and wanted my advice on it.

 

Guess it's going to be try and tell, I'll let you know the outcome!

 

Thanks all!

 

Luc

[cadcam]

Luc I can agree at least it is the fire GL those are there higher end,

[Rick Damiani]

The FireGL line of ATI cards are either CAD-specific versions of ATI's gamer boards (on the less-expensive ones) or FireGL-specific chipsets. In either case, they should not exhibit the kinds of problems found in ATI's lower-end video cards.