Re: Dev Diary
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 10:45 pm
Ahahaha, if all goes well, it'll be one heck of a Santa year in that regard, hahaha!
Yep, the Cintiq Companion has an Intel HD 4000, which should be used for modern pocket calculators and not any actual display tasks. ...I'm not yet sure what exactly it is good for, but openGL it is not! Verve runs on the Cintiq and my new version makes the fluids almost bearable, but it still is no joy in my eyes. The delay of the pen is annoying and unpleasant...which sounds like the same, but once you try it, you know that that's two aspects worthy of mentioning! But the whole handling of this thing is still foreign to me and somehow nothing seems to motivate me to wanting to get used to it at all.
A trusty old Intuos3 on my desktop machine is by endless means more enjoyable...truly enjoyable for that matter...and altogether that had about the same price as the cintiq companion...so....ouch!
Maybe a few years from now some company decides to seriously rival wacom and their bizarre opportunism when it comes to that niche, or for some reason they decide to become the good guys "again" (because in my eyes I've loved them from even before the Intuos days and only continued to love them more until my Intuos3) ...but well...how can it be so hard to put a decent gfx card into these things?!? It's just weird. I wonder if there's some way to upgrade it somehow, swap out the garbage card for a respectable one?
Yep, the Cintiq Companion has an Intel HD 4000, which should be used for modern pocket calculators and not any actual display tasks. ...I'm not yet sure what exactly it is good for, but openGL it is not! Verve runs on the Cintiq and my new version makes the fluids almost bearable, but it still is no joy in my eyes. The delay of the pen is annoying and unpleasant...which sounds like the same, but once you try it, you know that that's two aspects worthy of mentioning! But the whole handling of this thing is still foreign to me and somehow nothing seems to motivate me to wanting to get used to it at all.
A trusty old Intuos3 on my desktop machine is by endless means more enjoyable...truly enjoyable for that matter...and altogether that had about the same price as the cintiq companion...so....ouch!
Maybe a few years from now some company decides to seriously rival wacom and their bizarre opportunism when it comes to that niche, or for some reason they decide to become the good guys "again" (because in my eyes I've loved them from even before the Intuos days and only continued to love them more until my Intuos3) ...but well...how can it be so hard to put a decent gfx card into these things?!? It's just weird. I wonder if there's some way to upgrade it somehow, swap out the garbage card for a respectable one?