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.

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.

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.

The requirement for 1024 x 768 resolution (which most editors use) by the maximum of 32 bits color depth, is 8 MBs. Some graphics software uses the open GL features of the video card and actually use the video memory to process 3D effects. If you let us know what you are going to be using, we can help you configure your system. We have many options including cards that support two and three monitors.

Yes. Simply click the Load function to go to the file requester. PAP will automatically recognize a sequence of numbered frames as a clip. We support all the most popular formats, such as TGA, PNG, GIF, JPEG, TIFF, BMP and more. PAP understands most numbering schemes. The files could be named like this: name0001.ext, name0002.ext... or simply 1.ext, 2.ext... The imported frames will be placed in the blue layer and therefore colored monochrome blue.

First see if you have the driver installed. They are listed when you run kdmconfig. If the driver is present, configure with kdmconfig. If it's a new card, see if it's listed in the latest "x86 Video Driver Update" (VDU) for your Solaris release on http://access1.Sun.COM/drivers/ If listed, install the VDU. kdmconfig is ran automatically at the end of the VDU installation.

Most Voodoo cards can't support large textures or textures with translucent pixels, so graphics quality will be lower. But framerates should be better. You can still use SDL mode if you prefer, by using the "/sdl" command line option. This keeps the graphics at full quality, but because it's software based, it's not as fast as DirectX mode. Try deleting 'dwi2.rec', 'dwi2.sng', 'dwi2.cfg', and 'dwi2.inp'. These files may be corrupted or out-of-date.

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.

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

You can update automatically by using Windows Update service or go directly here: http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ If you have an NVIDIA chipset based 3d video card then visit www.nvidia.com and download drivers for your Windows version. If you have an ATI video card then visit www.ati.com You get this message because your computer or laptop doesn't have a 3D video card. Our screensavers require 3D video cards with at least 8Mb of video memory onboard.

outlined above, gamma correction in video effectively codes into a perceptually uniform domain. In video, a 0.45-power function is applied at the camera, as shown in the top row of this diagram: Synthetic computer graphics calculates the interaction of light and objects. These interactions are in the physical domain, and must be calculated in linear-light values.

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.