According to Adobe website, your card is not listed as supported :
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/831/cpsid_83117.html
So you probably have OpenGL on your card, but not a sufficently advanced version for CS5. Ask for a refund or an exchange if you can.
For the record, can you run the OpenGL Extension Viewer from here, and post the OpenGL version it displays ?
http://www.realtech-vr.com/glview/download.html
my mistake, there are *2* different places in photoshop where you enable 3d. all fine now.
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Jim Michaels
The NVidia GeForce 6200 card is VERY slow whenever anything with 3d has been done in Photoshop. it's like a a trigger has been set and it won't turn off unless you:
- turn off 3d support
- exit photoshop
maybe this is because it has no processors or CUDA.
I have also heard that even with high end cards Photoshop can be slow unless you tweak the "advanced" settings in the card. does anyone have a clue what those could be?
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Jim Michaels
Saying the GeForce 6200 has no processors is silly. Of course it has.
I don't know whether Photoshop supports that card and really the 6200 is not a CUDA enabled GPU.
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Besides the fact that this is an ancient graphics card without CUDA/OpenCL support, that was very fill-limited even back in its day (2004), I wonder if you might also have the PCI version of this card (not PCI-Express, PCI). That'd sure help dog it down too, especially in image-heavy apps like Photoshop which (particularly on a non-CUDA-capable GPU like yours) have to do nearly all of their processing on the CPU.Originally Posted by Jim Michaels
Had a little experience running a super-cheap GPU more recent than yours (unified cores) on the ol' PCI bus. A year or so ago, thought I'd try to cheap out a while longer on upgrading and tried a GeForce 8400 GS PCI for $20 or so. Worked decently in GL, ...except when you were running an app that needed to shovel a lot of data to/from the GPU of course; like playing movie trailers, streaming textures onto the GPU in GL, reading back framebuffer data. Then (intuitively) it was pretty bad.
agp8x but can't find an 8600 (GS?) AGP 8x which would be the answer to my problems. I had considered buying either a quadro 3000 agp if that would do the job, or a 7950, bu the 7950 didn't seem beefy enough.
the ebay vendor didn't say how many stream procs the quadro 3000 had. I know it's not going to work with Premiere (must be 3800, 4800 or 5800).
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Jim Michaels
I don't believe the term "stream processors" means anything until GeForce 8 (G80), which introduced unified shader cores.
The Quadro FX 3000 (GeForce FX 5900) you're talking about, as well as the GeForce 7950, are both pre-G80 (pre-GeForce 8). So AFAIK, the term doesn't apply. For stream processors, and similarly for any CUDA/OpenCL support, I believe you need G80 or better (GeForce 8 or better).
Sounds like you're trying hard to stay with an AGP 8x motherboard, but still get a CUDA/OpenCL-capable GPU. That's one of the reasons why I jumped on that 8400 GS. It was one of the very few options to do so, though you had to suck it up and deal with ol' PCI bus bandwidth.
Unless you can find one of those unusual GPUs out there, I think you have to go to PCI Express for CUDA/OpenCL-capable NVidia GPUs.
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