×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Geforce Fx and CATIA

Geforce Fx and CATIA

Geforce Fx and CATIA

(OP)
Has anyone tried Geforce Fx5200 for CATIA?
Which commercial gaming card will you suggest if you are going to buy it. The reason for gaming card is $$$$

RE: Geforce Fx and CATIA

I have tried with GF2, GF3 and GF4 but not GF FX. They all run without problem until your model get´s heavy or you build assemblies.

I would strongly recommend the ATI Fire GL 8800 that´s very fine card for reasonably money

RE: Geforce Fx and CATIA

If you are going for a gaming card I would suggest GF4-4800 or Ati Radeon 9700 (haven´t tried the Radeon but I hear that the openGL support is alright)

RE: Geforce Fx and CATIA

I strongly suggest the Matrox Parhelia, which is certified for CATIA and has both the best 2D and multimonitor support.

RE: Geforce Fx and CATIA

Azrael, it seems to me you have quite some experience about using gaming cards for CAD purposes.

I plan to buy very soon a GF4-TI4800 (150euros here in Paris) and use it with CatiaV5R10. Did it work fine for you? Did you use the Softquadro tuning, and if so, was it difficult?

I guess using a gaming card for CAD takes some time to tweak it, so I you have a few tips, I would save me from reinventing the wheel!

Thanks in advance!

RE: Geforce Fx and CATIA

My home computer running Windows XP Professional which uses a GeForce4 Ti4200 AGP 8X with the standard nVidia Detonator 44.03 drivers runs V5R11 with no problems.
I have not created very complex models with V5R11 yet so I cannot comment on performance with complex models.

RE: Geforce Fx and CATIA

I use SoftQuadro4 with my GF4 ti4200 card and I notice a huge improvement over the non-modified drivers. SoftQuadro4 is one thing I can recommend you who don´t use it.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources