A high-performance graphics card will certainly help. The underlying system spends a lot of time blitting 32-bit RGB bitmaps to the screen. But no 3D capabilities of the card will be used.

If you have more than one 3d accelerator card and would like to change which card the game uses, edit the config.dat file in your install directory (using a text editing program such as notepad). Remove the semi-colon from the line ';ChooseDevice=true'. When you next run the game, you will be given the option to choose which accelerator card is used.

No. You need a 3D Card, but it does not have to the latest and greatest. A 3D graphics card that is DirectX 9 compatible is all that's required. If you do have a super high powered 3D card, you will enjoy an enhanced battlefield experience.

It must be a 3D graphics card such as the nVidia GeForce or the ATI Radeon ranges. It also should have at least 32MB of Video RAM.

Standard monitors and TV's display images with a width-to-height ratio of 4:3. Wide-screen resolution has a ratio of 16:9 or 16:10.Wide-screen displays will "stretch" a 4:3 image to fill the screen which distorts the picture. A picture can be "scaled up" to fill the screen. There is no distortion in this approach, however, large amounts of the picture are cut off or lost at the top and bottom of the screen.

Graphics cards are stated within the item description. If they're not stated, then presume them to be integrated.

No. 3D will be useless in a trading environment as it will never be tapped. The FireMV line is designed specifically for the financial industry with very fast changes and layered multitasking capabilities. Pair that with our Dual Core processor systems and that is as fast as it gets. This is the basis by which our QuadStation was designed. You will get better results by breaking it down into several monitors rather than demanding all that data to a single video port.

The comp.graphics.algorithms FAQ contains a lot of 3D graphics information that isn't specific to OpenGL. excellent general computer graphics text is Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, Second Edition, by James Foley, et al. ISBN 0-201-12110-7. It has been mentioned that this book is out of print and that a third edition is planned for release in January 2001. However, some online book retailers still seem to have it for sale. Try amazon.com.

We use an overhead view because it's better for seeing who is in your adventuring party. Smaller graphics mean that you can see farther and more people, and Clan Lord tends to have lots of people playing together. (Why else be online?) And tiny graphics look better hand-drawn than 3D.

In creating this game, we decided that instead of focusing on creating pretty graphics, we would instead focus on creating a game which was fun to play. Also, since we do coding for this game in our spare time, we decided to try and limit the complexity of the task we were undertaking. A third reason is that none of the current development team is familiar with either of the two dominant graphics APIs: DirectX and OpenGL.

Surprisingly there is no simple way in Windows to check the 3D graphics capability of a PC. The best way we have found is to Start / Run / DXDIAG and view the Display information reported. If the Device name contains nVidia GeForce or ATI Radeon and the memory is 32MB or greater then the 3D graphics aspect should be satisfied. We have received feedback that the Intel 915 (with 128MB of shared memory) also performs satisfactory.

Not necessarily. MacroModel has an X-Windows only mode. If you have the ability to display to an X-Terminal, a workstation that supports X-Windows, or a PC/Mac which is running an X-emulator, then you can probably run MacroModel. While the capabilities are less than in the 3D GL mode, many users find the X-Windows mode completely satisfactory. When running the program in X-Windows mode on an SGI nothing else need be done.

A - Whether you'll be using your PC for entertainment or school, office or home, you want the best graphics possible. Consider the following options for the performance you want: Choose a standard graphics card with up to 32MB of memory for spreadsheets, word processing, Web browsing and e-mail. These programs aren't very graphics-intensive and don't require much video-processing power. Choose a mid-range graphics card with up to 128MB of memory for watching movies and viewing photos.

The games are not 3D and don't require a 3D card. It is recommended you have one to improve game performance.

No, but THE SETTLERS IV does support 3D accelerators and thus achieves higher graphical quality and/or higher speeds.

Yes, Voodoo Graphics is a 3D-only accelerator. Voodoo Rush on the other hand is a 3D accelerator that is incorporated on a 2D video card - an additional 2D board is therefore not required for Voodoo Rush

Not anymore. I started out doing that in the mid 1980's and did so for many years. At that time there really wasn't any software capable of doing what needed to be done so I always found myself writing the software and tools to support the production role. After many years I decided that I liked development a lot more than the production side and focussed on that exclusively.

I am an independant artist for hire, modeling for animation, stills, video games etc. But I have to warn you, 3D art this complex can be very expensive and typically only large commerical firms can afford it. Were I to perform all the requests that I recieved for free, I would never have any time to myself B). As much as I like creating, I'm limited by time and cost.

OpenGL compliant 3D accelerator card with at least 8 Megabytes of video RAM is strongly recommended to play Cuboingo™. Before running Cuboingo™, please be sure you have installed the latest drivers for your video card.