Re: filmscanners: Graphics card (simple Q) [was: infos on Nikon LS 2000 or Microtek 4000T ...

[photoscientia]

Hi Mikkel.

Mikkel Høj wrote:

> It takes some time to update my screen in PS6. (On a PC with enough RAM and a PIII 
>processsor.)

> Is it my no name (2D, 8 MB shared) graphics card? Or?

You should make sure that the video mode is set for 32 bit colour.
The speed difference between 24 bit and 32 bit mode is remarkable with some cards, 
with 32 bit mode
being much faster.
Although this seems back-to-front, the speed difference is due to the way that the 
video data is
handled by the processor and the data bus.

I've found the 2D performance of the 3Dfx chipset cards impressive.
Scrolling and redraws seem to take no time at all in Photoshop5.5.

> How big a graphics card is needed for a 1024 x 768 screen resolution?

Only 4 megabytes.

Regards,      Pete.