Vodoo or Gforce hummmm??

[Eolo]

You excuse, my question is the following one, recently I have bought a video graphics card GForce Nvidia 440 -64 Mb, to upgrade my previous card Vodoo 3500 of 16 Mb... for my deception I have noticed that although the Gforce works very well with the games, it is not compared with the excellent definition of the Vodoo in the pictures that I takes with my Canon G3...
It can be that the old card of 3dfx of 16 Mb is superior to those but new Nvidia of 64 Mb.
Could somebody be solved this dilemma?

Thank you.

[CyberDyneSystems]

It can be! Yes,. its possible.

All these gaming cards advancements are in 3D acceleration. Unfortunately very little effort is put into the visual quality of your day to day 2d expeirience (ie Windows and all your applications that aren't games)

Although Voodoo 3 cards were never heralded for there 2d visual quality in particular,. it is very possible that they had better 2d Graphics.

Case in point,. I own THE best CRT Monitor available. The Sony FW900. I also own a few PCs with different graphics cards. The nearly $300.00 Geforce 4 TI4600 does not look NEARLY as good as ANY Matrox Graphics card including a nearly decade old Matrox Millenium 2 8 megabyte PCI card!!

In a way this is an ufair comparison. Matrox was for years THE card to get becausse of its superlative 2D rendition,. the richest colors and best contrast. Matrox only fell from Favor after the 3D revolution stressed Game perfromance over Visual quality in 2D.

To this day,. Matrox Cards will still give not only the best Visual quality for what we do here in Photography,.. it will perfrom in Photoshop faster.

If you want the Best image quality available ofr your monitor,. go find a Matrox G-400 or G-450. It will be lousy at games,. but your pictures and photo editing will shine!

[CyberDyneSystems]

P.S.,. you can change you G-force cards setting by ;

Right click anywhere on your desktop,

Select "properties",

Click the "settings" tab,

Click "advanced",

Select the "Color Correction" tab....

Tweek this and see if you can help things out a bit.

[RichardtheSane]

Personally I rate ATI display adaptors very highly for 2d image quality. If you are looking for a good value card the radeon 8500 is a lot od card for the money, 2d and 3d