topic Re: SciTech GLDirect 4 Demo in Installation & update

SciTech GLDirect 4 Demo

Anonymous — Sat, 27 Dec 2003 14:14:37 GMT

SciTech GLDirect 4.0 it is a shareware hwo
can convert archicad opengl capability in directx DirectX 7, DirectX 8, and DirectX 9.
verry useful for opengl problems

Re: SciTech GLDirect 4 Demo

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Jan 2004 16:46:51 GMT

Nice !
Though it would have been nicer to know that somebody had courage and tried it out. (If I learnt anything in the past few years about IT, well, that would be: Don't fix it if it's not broken. )

Here's the link for more adventurous types.

Re: SciTech GLDirect 4 Demo

Paul King — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 06:36:05 GMT

What is that link? Your post seems to have been "pruned"

Cheers

Paul King

Re: SciTech GLDirect 4 Demo

stefan — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 09:15:43 GMT

Check google 😉

http://www.scitechsoft.com/products/ent/gld_home.php

Re: SciTech GLDirect 4 Demo

Paul King — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 15:16:05 GMT

While I don't have any Open GL problems (I have an ATI Radeon 9700) I was curious & tested the GLDirect4 using emulation via T&L Hardware aceleration and DirectX9 - the most "accelerated" settings for DirectX that my card can use (or any current directX capable card for that matter)

Using a fairly complex test model, I discovered the result indeed works, but is VERY much slower and chews up a lot more RAM.
On an older card, I imagine this emulation performance would be even worse.

Based on that, I think if you have OpenGL problems with your current card, you are better off simply coughing up for at least a high end "gaming" card like Ati Radeon 9700 or 9800 Pro, or Nvidia FX 5800 or FX5900 - which all handle OpenGL very well.

Would be interested to hear others experiance?