nVidia FX-1400 dropping graphics
nVidia FX-1400 dropping graphics
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It seems my new system is having some of the same graphics issues my old system was having--only I've gone from an FX 500 to an FX 1400.
Issues include the intermittant blanking out of all dimensions from a sketch, losing edges in Shaded with Edges mode, and other similar things I'd expect from a graphics card that's not quite keeping up with everything.
My question is whether SolidWorks itself could be to blame, and a faster card won't necessarily fix the problem--or whether a faster card will definitely fix the problem.
I'm running the recommended drivers for the card, and am on SP 3.1 of 2006. I often have near nine SW windows open while working with three or more being assemblies. Assemblies often have less than 200 parts, many of which are repeated, some of which are complex forms.
Any ideas/suggestions or is anyone seeing similar results with nVidia cards?
Issues include the intermittant blanking out of all dimensions from a sketch, losing edges in Shaded with Edges mode, and other similar things I'd expect from a graphics card that's not quite keeping up with everything.
My question is whether SolidWorks itself could be to blame, and a faster card won't necessarily fix the problem--or whether a faster card will definitely fix the problem.
I'm running the recommended drivers for the card, and am on SP 3.1 of 2006. I often have near nine SW windows open while working with three or more being assemblies. Assemblies often have less than 200 parts, many of which are repeated, some of which are complex forms.
Any ideas/suggestions or is anyone seeing similar results with nVidia cards?
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.






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Thanks for the quick response.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.
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Rob Rodriguez CSWP
President: Northern
Vermont SolidWorks User Group
www.robrodriguez.com (updated 2/22/06)
SW 2006 SP 3.0
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Is anyone seeing this on non-nVidia cards? I'm wondering if we can figure out where the problem is. It happens somewhat frequentely--sometimes my dimensions disappear and will not actually show up on the screen again (as in editing an existing sketch) without shutting down SW and restarting--big pain when I've got large assemblies running.
I've got the dimensions showing flat to the screen plane, which seemed to help with my older system--but am obviously still having some problems here.
Anyone know of any spiffy settings within the nVidia control panel that may help?
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.
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I also have the FX1400 and see that very same thing with 2006 but not with 2005. I haven't check the SWx site to see if video drivers changed for 2006. I will do that and report back.
Best Regards,
Heckler
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
SW2005 SP 5.0 & Pro/E 2001
Dell Precision 370
P4 3.6 GHz, 1GB RAM
XP Pro SP2.0
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
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... or the 8178 or 8412 BETA drivers direct from nVidia? They are not certified or passed by SW ... but just might be what's needed.
Helpful SW websites FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions FAQ559-1091
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(Just crashed SW good a minute ago--doing some risky mods several layers deep in assemblies--after all these years I'm getting better and guessing what might make SW pile up like that.)
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.
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Helpful SW websites FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions FAQ559-1091
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I have no SPR number, because I first saw it on the x64 beta, so I reported it there and the tech there told me: "We do have an SPR for this, I have seen it before. However this issue isn't a 64 bit specific issue."
Btw, it also happens on my ATI Mobility FireGL T2-256...
Stefan Hamminga
EngIT Solutions
CSWP/Mechanical designer/AI student
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I found out how it was happing though, if I want to edit a sketch and I'm not in the plane of the sketch the dim will not appear (even after selecting the proper plan after in side of sketch edit). To correct this just stop editting the sketch, select the the proper plane and then edit it again and the dimensions will appear. Pretty soon I just started to remember to select the proper plane before hitting edit. It's an annoying bug but I've now learned to live with it but I'm a part time user.
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Mongo63A, I'll try out your method--I'd definitely like to get rid of the problem, so a work-around is fine with me. (I must be carrying around ten work-arounds I picked up way back in SW 97, even though those have been fixed/updated.)
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.
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What video driver are you using? 6.14.10.7756 the 9/27/2005 build or 10/25/2005 build? According to SWx website the 9/27/2005 build has limitations as listed in the notes.....System instability when using over 3GB of virtual memory, may Blue Screen. This only applies if you're using a x64 OS, which I think you run? Keep us updated on any solutions
Best Regards,
Heckler
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
SW2005 SP 5.0 & Pro/E 2001
Dell Precision 370
P4 3.6 GHz, 1GB RAM
XP Pro SP2.0
NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400
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Brandon
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I think the latter build you mentioned is what I'm using--it's whatever the 71.84 download really is when installed.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.
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Running a Quadro FX go 7000 on Dell M70, SW2006 SP3 (seen the issue since SP 0)
I know of others using desktops with Quadro 1100's having same issue.
DW
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Haven't seen any issues so far in 06 in SP0 and SP3 with the FX 3400. I am running with the latest driver from NVidia which I think is not the one recommended on the site.
RFUS
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John
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Thanks everyone for the feedback. Perhaps 2007 will be better.
Now that this is all out in the open, I'd recommend contacting SolidWorks to ask for a fix. It's a strange thing to pay so much for a graphics card to be compatible with SolidWorks, only to have it function improperly with SolidWorks. (Maybe the graphics card approval system would have noticed this in all the certifications?)
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.
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John
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Is anyone having problems with NVIDIA FX1300 cards?
We are scheduled to get new PC's with FX1300 cards when we
upgrade to SW2006 at the end of the month.
Regards,
Dan Olid
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Tony
P4 2.80 GHZ
3 GB RAM
Quadro FX 1000 (71.84)
SolidWorks 2006 SP3.0
2003 Yamaha YZF-R1