Hello,
I am a 3D artist using 3Ds max 2009 and Windows 7 64 bit. I recently bought and ATI firepro V5700 mid-range workstation card. From all the reviews I've read this should be a very capable card, but was surprised to find it performed terribly compared to my old Nvidea Quadro FX 1400 - a much older card with only a quarter of the video memory and much less processing power. I have all the latest drivers for the ATI card and have checked and rechecked everything at least a dozen times. I even had another Firepro V5700 shipped to me and installed it thinking the first was faulty. The same issues persisted. Handling 3D models interactively with the ATI cards is painfully slow.
Does anyone have any thoughts on what might be the problem here? Are 3dS max 2009 and Win 7 64 just too new for this hardware? Should I wait it out and hope that some new drivers come out soon? Is there something I'm missing? Any help or suggestions is much appreciated.
I am a 3D artist using 3Ds max 2009 and Windows 7 64 bit. I recently bought and ATI firepro V5700 mid-range workstation card. From all the reviews I've read this should be a very capable card, but was surprised to find it performed terribly compared to my old Nvidea Quadro FX 1400 - a much older card with only a quarter of the video memory and much less processing power. I have all the latest drivers for the ATI card and have checked and rechecked everything at least a dozen times. I even had another Firepro V5700 shipped to me and installed it thinking the first was faulty. The same issues persisted. Handling 3D models interactively with the ATI cards is painfully slow.
Does anyone have any thoughts on what might be the problem here? Are 3dS max 2009 and Win 7 64 just too new for this hardware? Should I wait it out and hope that some new drivers come out soon? Is there something I'm missing? Any help or suggestions is much appreciated.