Don Stanley wrote: > Hi All; > I will have to plead the Shultz Defense. > > The Mill processors I am converting to EMC2 are > Athlon 64 processor 3700+ or better with the following > slots: > PCI > PCI-EX1 > PCI-EX16 > MGP (Mach speed graphics port). > I am currently using left over dual monitor video cards > which worked fine for the old CNC package. Apparently > EMC2 wants better. > > Any suggestions for a Graphics Card that will make EMC2 > and these systems happy to do the job, and get my latency > test out of the ruts. > > Moving the Latency Display during the test looks like this. > Max Intrvl(ns) Max Jitr(ns) Lst Intrvl(ns) > Servo Thread (1.0ms) 1692524 214782 996XXX > Base Thread (25us) 82717 47208 24XXX > > You may be able to turn off some driver acceleration features of the video driver to improve this. The driver may be doing a lot of DMA to main memory when using the acceleration features. If that isn't an available setting to adjust, then you may be able to switch to a generic VGA driver, which assumes no hardware assist, for the same effect.
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