Currently I am working on a g4 500mhz 1gig ram, 16 mb ATI Rage card. Recently I began using Carrara to create quick 3d renderings for presentations. I traditionaly perfer Soft Image but unfrotunatley my employer's did not have it in their budget to purchase this software. Carrara was the program that fell in their price range, and i am stuck with it for a while.
Unfortantely I have been experiencing frequent crashes with this software. Overal the preformance of the software is sluggish (from the interface and pulldown windows to working in the files themselves). The files I have been creating are not memory intensive and use verly little textures and bmps. My companies tech support recommended upgrading video cards to resolve these issues. My 2 choices are the Ati 32 Radeon and the 3dfx voodo 64. I have heard good and bad about both.
After reading the article about Voodoo 5500 on macledge.com I think that ATI Radeon might be a better choice. Radeon card is designed to communicate via Accelerated Graphic Port which gives it better throughput that's why it equals or betters the performance of Voodoo 5500 with 64 MB RAM which uses Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus, additionally Voodoo does not support Apple DVD. Do you agree with this or is better to go with the Voodo 64?
Finally I would appreciate any comments on recommended 3d software on a mac. I know Maya is coming soon for osX but its pri ce is still to steep. What do you recomend for a price range between $1000.00-$3000.00. Thank you for your time, I look forward to your response.
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