Radeon 8500: will it work with Maya 3.01???

[RACERSTODEATH2002]

I need to know if Maya 3.01 will work with Radeon 8500.. if so can you tell me which drivers to use... thanks.

 

[Rand]

Yes it does, use ATi's latest .6025 drivers IMHO.

 

[Gog]

Its really a matter of ATi's drivers, but necessarily as good as nVidias offering.

Here is an interesting article that compares the performance of the Geforce 3 ti500 and the Radeon 8500 under 3D Studio Max. Link



<< So, we see that in geometric benchmarks RADEON 8500 suffered a total defeat because of the "improper" drivers. Moreover, the AGP implementation also leaves much to be desired. However, all the other benchmarks showed that it nearly as fast as GeForce3 Ti500, and in the final benchmarks RADEON 8500 proves an indisputable leader. This way, we have every reason to make a very natural conclusion: ATI engineers have finally learned to design the GPU, i.e. "pure hardware". Now everything depends on software developers. They managed to make good drivers for RADEON256 only half a year after the graphics cards based on it appeared in the mass market. And RADEON 8500 came out with the already more or less acceptable software. So, undoubtedly after another half a year passes, you will never ask yourself a question what to take for work in 3ds max. However, we would like to warn you against unofficial drivers: these drivers are usually optimized for a very limited number of gaming applications at the expense of all the other ones. At least RADEON 8500 working with any of the today's unofficial drivers performs much slower than in case it works with the official ones. >>