https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/3d-text-commander-3-0/ en Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:49:46 +0000 hourly 1 FeedWriter https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/3d-text-commander-3-0/#comment-101966 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:49:46 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/3d-text-commander-3-0/#comment-101966 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/3d-text-commander-3-0/#comment-101965 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:38:20 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/3d-text-commander-3-0/#comment-101965 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/3d-text-commander-3-0/#comment-101964 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:45:26 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/3d-text-commander-3-0/#comment-101964 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/3d-text-commander-3-0/#comment-101963 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:39:37 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/3d-text-commander-3-0/#comment-101963 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/3d-text-commander-3-0/#comment-101962 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:39:52 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/3d-text-commander-3-0/#comment-101962 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/3d-text-commander-3-0/#comment-101961 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:24:48 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/3d-text-commander-3-0/#comment-101961 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/3d-text-commander-3-0/#comment-101960 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:09:20 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/3d-text-commander-3-0/#comment-101960 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/3d-text-commander-3-0/#comment-101959 "The Bad ... * No “Undo” or “Redo” features." If/when the OpenGL part of it runs like it's supposed to, there really isn't a need or want for an Undo button at all. Any changes made show up real-time in a very decent draft/preview quality, & when you stop moving a slider there's a delay of less than a second for the regular quality render. What would IMHO be much more valuable, & may even be what you're referring to, Ashraf, is there is no default preset or reset button, so if you don't save a preset 1st, you can be left wondering what the slider values were in the 1st place. * * * #26: "resource usage is just as heavy." #29: "All sofwware from insofta is slow, very slow" #35: "I have no problem with the program running slow or hanging up and I am wondering whether those that are have a lot of un-necessary programs running in the background or have spyware/malware on their systems." And any other performance related comments... To put some numbers to it, in XP Pro SP3 32 at the moment, Task Mgr. reports 3D Text Commander takes a fair amount of RAM (236,416K), & while rendering, maxes 1 core of an AMD quad. GPU-Z doesn't show any GPU involvement with an ATI 4870, but (re)renders happen between GPU-Z's refresh or polling, & suspect resolution isn't high enough to show anyway. Using Direct Draw & VFW (Video For Windows) is pretty safe, if maybe not as optimized for speed as D3D &/or Direct Show, with the most likely culprit for many (most?) experiencing poor performance & misbehaving being OpenGL. If you don't have hardware support for OpenGL, apps that use it are going to be doggy. Software emulation can work, so you can check that out, but IMHO it may not be worth your time & trouble this time. * * * #46: "...why don’t YOU provide the link to the changelog..." *Think* you meant comment 10, but regardless, if anyone's interested [http://www.insofta.com/blog/3d-text-commander-3.0-released/#more-10]. Not a change log but what I found re: new version on their site while just looking around. * * * #48: "Are all of the problems I’m having due to this being a “32-bit only” version of the prg, or is it a “64-bit-compatible” version," IMHO regarding 3D Text Commander in 64 bit Windows vs. 32, just like most software it should be pretty much irrelevant. Yes, it should be confirmed by the software's published sys. requirements, & probably because there are so relatively few 64 bit apps, it usually isn't. [it's not GOTD's job to test for that sort of thing, because then they'd be opening themselves up to providing tech support] At any rate... 64 bit Windows needs 64 bit drivers. 64 bit apps don't work well with 32 bit apps, unless it's side by side with no interaction. The vast majority of apps running in 64 bit Windows are 32 bit. Strictly speaking there really is no such thing as an app being 64 bit compatible -- as long as an app doesn't include drivers, the code itself will pretty much run. When/where there are problems it's in my experience caused by 1) the app is maybe poorly written, can't navigate the extra sections of the registry present with 64 bit Windows, & needs to, or 2) the problem really isn't caused by Windows being 64 bit, but because the app isn't compatible with *that* version of Windows -- something that happens for instance with 7.]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:08:21 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/3d-text-commander-3-0/#comment-101959 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/3d-text-commander-3-0/#comment-101958 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:43:38 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/3d-text-commander-3-0/#comment-101958 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/3d-text-commander-3-0/#comment-101957 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:03:20 -0400 https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/3d-text-commander-3-0/#comment-101957