i've had fairly good luck with using a geforce 6800gs. i use rivatuner and softquadro to trick it into a quadro. more info on softmodding and the software can be found at www.3dguru.com
i'm running a geforce with no problems. he has been running his radeon with no problems. no non-workstation grphics card is approved and i'm well aware of that. i run rivatuner and the soft-quadro mod on my 6800. however all gpu issues i've seen will cause artifacts, bounding boxes, or some...
my coworkers computer is a dell. 3.2ghz pentium, 128mb radeon, 4gb ram. not sure what you mean by spr so i'll through the ignorance card. if you are referrring to our solidworks version, it's listed in the original post.
thanks for the input guys. the memory checks out. we actually pulled the sticks and installed his original 512mb stick and tried it on that and it did the exact same thing, it just crashed faster. this guy is like a jakchammer when it comes to computers, so i haven't ruled out the possibility of...
solidworks 2006 sp 3.0
my coworker is having an assembly file crash on him constantly. he will try to mate and the program stalls, then flashes an out of memory error message. this is on a machine with 4 gigs of memory. the only thing we could deduce is that the assembly file is corrupt...