Video Performance Slow in NX4
Video Performance Slow in NX4
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I recently installed NX4, When working with large assemblies the response from the video slows to a crawl.
I am currently running 2 gig of memory with an Nvidia FX5200 video card (128 memory) Would upgrading the video card help the performance. If so, any suggestions to a card? Thanks
I am currently running 2 gig of memory with an Nvidia FX5200 video card (128 memory) Would upgrading the video card help the performance. If so, any suggestions to a card? Thanks
Jim Walker
Lorentson Tooling Inc





RE: Video Performance Slow in NX4
Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com
Some people are like slinkies....they don't really have a purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.
RE: Video Performance Slow in NX4
Opened a file (32,555 K) Hard to tell if it helped, maybe a little. Could more memory, either in the video card or the computer help this problem? Thanks again
Jim Walker
Lorentson Tooling Inc
RE: Video Performance Slow in NX4
If it were me, I'd get a certified video card. Other users may disagree, and that's their prerrogative. I don't like working on non-supported hardware in case I run into a situation like this. I can just call GTAC and have them do the problem solving.
Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com
Some people are like slinkies....they don't really have a purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.
RE: Video Performance Slow in NX4
When I was still using my old portable MaxVision workstation (since replaced by a Dell M65 laptop which has an Nvidia Quadro FX350M graphics engine) I once 'lost' my graphics card while on the road and went into a local electronics store, like a Micro Center, and purchased what for them was the most powerfull AGP Open-GL graphics card, but it was still a gaming card. While it did work, performance was marginal, but it did get me through the bind I was in, but once I was back at the office, we replaced the card with a one that was fully supported and installed the certified driver.
So while gaming cards are attractive, pricewise, they usually fall short on performance for high-end CAD applications like NX and such.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
UGS NX Product Line
SIEMENS
UGS PLM Software
Cypress, CA
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RE: Video Performance Slow in NX4
RE: Video Performance Slow in NX4
Now that does not mean that we have not tried to at least provide, whenever possible, some minimal level of graphics supports for whatever display card that you're using, but to find out exactly what that level of support by NX is, there are a couple of things that you can do. First launch a session of NX and under Help select the 'NX Log File' option. Once you have the logfile displayed in the listing window, do a search for the word 'adaptor'. When you find it, note what's reported in the next several items. The first one to look at is 'Graphics device'. If it's reported as 'GDI Generic', then you know that you're probably not getting acceleration from the graphics card at all and it's in what's called, as it states, a 'generic' mode of operation. Or you might find something a little more descriptive like:
This is an unaccelerated graphics configuration. Unigraphics performs better on accelerated configurations. Perhaps the graphics device is unsupported or perhaps an incorrect device driver is installed.
Now if you see either of these notes, there's not a whole lot that you can do to help you if you're running on an uncertified graphics board or using a non-certified driver, but you should, at a minimum, run the 'Evaluate Graphics Performance' utility found on the Preferences -> Visualization Performance... dialog. This will run a series of tests on your graphics configuration and will give you a report of what it finds and some recommendations that you can do inside of NX to perhaps improve your performance.
I hope that this helps, but you're still better off getting an approved graphics divice and driver because at least in that situation, we might be able to provide more real support through the GTAC organization.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
UGS NX Product Line
SIEMENS
UGS PLM Software
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/ugs
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
RE: Video Performance Slow in NX4
Nvidia put an end to this in the 7000 and 8000 series cards by making hardware differences
Jason
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Jim Walker
Lorentson Tooling Inc
RE: Video Performance Slow in NX4
Ron Dawson
Manufacturing Engineer
Ducommun AeroStructures-Parsons
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