i just found out my pc isn’t compatible with toon boom studio. i can’t upgrade the graphics card because of it’s make/model(er i’m not a techie…)
so i’m stuck getting a new computer
i know it meets the ram specifications and the resolutions and everything. what i need to know is if you know anything about it’s graphics card
i tried looking it up trying to find if it’s good for this program(i couldn’t find anything here but i may have over looked) and when i looked up the graphics card only only things about gaming came up.
if you can tell me if this computer is good or recommend one that is(up to $250-300) that’d be appreciated
The AMD Radeon HD 8210 that comes with that system is not very good. Animation and gaming require similar graphic cards so a good gaming system will also be a good animating system.
If you use two monitors, the resources from the card will be cut in half.
Also the minimum listed in the tech specs is a bit on the low side, you should attempt to exceed the graphic card specs listed if at all possible.
I am just curious to see whether having someone upgrade that would put you in a better place than buying another computer.
I am not up on the latest PC technology.
I know more about Macs.
That laptop in your link seems like it would be sufficient for word processing at least. Most comparisons and evaluations online use gaming as a litmus test. This does not translate evenly to graphic design software and to Toon Boom software specifically. That laptop’s card is abysmal in that realm.
I use a system that does not meet the minimum Mac requirement but it runs Animate Pro 3 good enough so far and that better than it runs Studio 7.
If something can run the software at all I think the Animate level and above is more efficient with resources given their features compared to Studio.
I have to allow the graphics card more time to refine with Studio. If I draw without pausing so the antialiasing can complete it gets increasingly slow.