Want new computer. dont want old problems.
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I have the wonky graphics card issues, when I crank up OpelGL settings, that are well covered here in the forum . An example is pictured in the attached image.
I use a Geforce 8500 GT card with an 3.21GHz AMD 64 Athlon X2 chip, 2GB of ram on Windows XP.
My question is what cards or combos don't have this problem. I'm looking to buy a new system and really want sketchup to scream. I was looking at going mobile with a 17" Macbook Pro, but don't want to spend 3 grand and still have the same issues. What do you all think? Who doesn't have this issue and whatcha runnin?
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Normally when I see that kind of artefacting I'd say you tried overclocking your graphics card and the memory got damaged.
The nVidia 8500's seem to work well with SU, so my first port of call would be to try a diffrent driver. Try installing the latest driver. If you are already using the latest driver, then try an earlier driver (from say a few months ago). Failing that I'd have the graphics card tested.
Also, I'm not really aware of any hardware that'll make SU scream. For the some or other really really really stupid reason SU doesn't support contemporary hardware the way it should. You'll be better off with a highly clocked CPU (dual and quad core CPU's don't directly relate to better performance in SU6 ATM - might just help with other apps running in the background), an 8xxx series nVidia graphics card (the 8800 GTX really rocks for a gaming class card) and between 2 and 4GB of RAM (depending on your usage and OS). Since your machine complies to most of the previous, I wouldn't spend my money on a new machine just yet, wait until SU7 sees the light of day to see if the situation changes.
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