sechisholm
Mechanical
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.
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nx8 wont start after installing new video card
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JohnRBaker
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Did you also install the certified driver for the new graphics card?
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Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
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?
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JohnRBaker
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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.
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.
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sechisholm
Mechanical
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!!
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sechisholm
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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.
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.
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I do have a Dell with a Radeon that I have used with UGII V16. Not great but it did work.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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