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From: Invisible
Date: 14 Dec 2007 07:03:38
Message: <4762711a$1@news.povray.org>
scott wrote:
>>> Erm yeh, Gelato is meant to be run on a Quadro card...
>>
>> Gelato? Or Gelato Pro?
> 
> Both.  Gelato and Gelato Pro were both designed to run on a Quadro 
> card.  If you try to run it on a non-Quadro card, it might work but it's 
> certainly not going to be able to make use of all the GPU features a 
> Quadro card has.  I suspect it is using CPU emulation for the GPU 
> features that are missing...

The information I was is that Gelato Pro *won't work* with a GeForce 
card, but vanilla Gelato will. This suggests to me that they designed it 
to work properly in that configuration.

[I'm no expert, but the nVidia document I saw seemed to suggest that the 
Quadro cards are more geared to 2D optimisation than 3D. Not sure how 
that would help here...]

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