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nx8 wont start after installing new video card

nx8 wont start after installing new video card

nx8 wont start after installing new video card

(OP)
nx8 wont start after installing new video card. The NX screens appears and then nothing else happens. Any ideas? Every software besides NX works fine.

Thanks

RE: nx8 wont start after installing new video card

Did you also install the certified driver for the new graphics card?

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

RE: nx8 wont start after installing new video card

Is it a 'certified' graphics card? While Siemens does not certify cards themselvs, is it least a card that is certified IF used in a complete certified system?

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli

RE: nx8 wont start after installing new video card

Note that so-called 'gaming cards' are generally NOT suitable for use with NX.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

RE: nx8 wont start after installing new video card

(OP)
Definitely a driver issue. Running windows 7 64 bit it has a driver from 2009. Checking the ATI site there is a driver from may of this year. Windows 7 for some reason wont let me install the new driver. Ugggghhh!!

Thanks Guys

RE: nx8 wont start after installing new video card

(OP)
The video card in question is a ATI Radeon x700 Pro. Its a old card I took from a dead CPU here at work. Was hoping it would work in a newer machine.

RE: nx8 wont start after installing new video card

You will need to log in with administrator privileges to install a new driver.

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RE: nx8 wont start after installing new video card

ATI Radeon cards are in the gaming class, so it may not work with something as new as NX8.5.
I do have a Dell with a Radeon that I have used with UGII V16. Not great but it did work.

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli

RE: nx8 wont start after installing new video card

@OP

Although some gaming cards work with NX, they are not supported and, even worse, the X700 is getting fairly old by computing standards. As for installing the driver I would either log in as administrator or at least right click the install file and select run as administrator.

FYI-
I have seen a test rig with a single GeForce GTX680 run nx85 just fine. The GTX680 is a current high end gaming card. It performed better than our mid-range workstation cards by far but we didn't have an opportunity to test against a high end workstation card. On the sim/gaming side we got really high frame rates at high settings but were able to drag it down a bit when we ran ultra settings with a popular flight sim. Our next test will be to run two GTX680's in a SLI configuration and possibly test a GeForce Titan if we can get our hands on one.

NX85

RE: nx8 wont start after installing new video card

i'd say that the gtx680 is a lot better then quadro 600 or the entry firepro.

RE: nx8 wont start after installing new video card

GTX680 might be better than Quadro 600 but it is also twice more expensive.

RE: nx8 wont start after installing new video card

I don't know how much the latter is but a GTX680 can be had for around $470-500 depending on options like a back plate or memory (2 or 4GB). I doubt we could buy a top-end equivalent workstation card for that.

The really interesting card I'd like to try is a 7970. It lags behind the 680 a little for sim/gaming but it's way better for cad/cam than the 680. Standard memory on those is 3GB but can go up to 6GB! I wish I had set up my test rig with one of those first.

NX85

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