nvidia OpenGL drivers for low-end cards - when?

[Jim Michaels]

I have a PNY (NVidia) GeForce 6200 and it has no OpenGL drivers, but it has PhysX drivers. I am not sure about this, but I think PhysX provides CUDA, which I need for Adobe products and other video stuff.

what is lacking is OpenGL drivers. I tried the drivers on the cd. no go. so then I tried the newest drivers from NVidia's web site. no go.

will some engineers at NVidia please make OpenGL drivers available as part of the drivers set for lower end cards?
thanks.

[mfort]

OpenGL driver is part of NVIDIA driver bundle (DirectX, PhysX,OpenGL). It cannot be installed separately.

Why do you think you do not have OpenGL drivers installed?

[Jim Michaels]

Adobe Photoshop CS5 says "no 3d", and it requires OpenGL.

[Jim Michaels]

actually I should say that 3d is optional on photoshop, but I would like to use all the features of photoshop.

[Alfonse Reinheart]

Adobe Photoshop CS5 says "no 3d", and it requires OpenGL.

Maybe Photoshop simply requires more from OpenGL than your graphics card can provide.

Your card is not "low-end"; it is over a half-decade old.

actually I should say that 3d is optional on photoshop, but I would like to use all the features of photoshop.

I'm curious; what features of Photoshop requires 3D.

[mfort]

http://www.nvidia.com/object/adobe_photoshop.html

[Alfonse Reinheart]

http://www.nvidia.com/object/adobe_photoshop.html

Those don't seem to be features so much as making Photoshop faster.

Also, Adobe Photoshop CS5 came out a mere 6 months ago. The GeForce 6200 came out over half a decade ago. Do you really expect a recent Photoshop version to take advantage of such outdated hardware? This page from NVIDIA clearly states which versions of its cards work on CS5. And the only non-quadros are the GTX480 and the GTX285.

[mfort]

It is hard to say what GPU features are needed for accelerating Photoshop CS5. They do not provide much details.

More info is here: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/404/kb404898.html

OpenGL 2.0 should be enough. GF 6200 looks OK.

[RDNXR]

Photoshop acceleration requires OGL e CUDA support.
Cuda Support is allowed only from 8400GS and higher.

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/cuda_gpus_uk.html

[Jim Michaels]

I'm curious; what features of Photoshop requires 3D.

surely you've seen the dragon and ship ads adobe is putting out for adobe photoshop cs5. that's photoshop cs5 extended at work. it's not just a paint or photo program. it's added 3d rendering and a slight amount of cad.

Photoshop CS5 Extended has several 3D object manipulation tools. one of them is Repousse. I think one of Repousse's abilities is to take a flat image and extrude it, do 3d text, etc.

take a look at the repousse tool yourself.
http://www.google.com/search?q=repousse+cs5

but I can't tell you all photoshop can do in 3d (which is probably plenty since I think it works with CAD) because it's not enabled on my machine! let's not get the cart before the horse.

if you think you can stop rebuking me and simply supply me with drivers, that would be great. I don't care if the 6200's an old card. OpenGL drivers should have been supplied with it if nvidia says that it works with Adobe CS5 on their web site. period. if it doesn't do that, it's false advertising. why do you think I bought the card in the first place?