REALVIEW GRAPHICS PROBLEM

[bracin]

Hi, I just bought a Dell M70 Laptop with the Nvidia Quadro FX 1400 graphics card. I am using Solidworks 2004 sp5.0. I can not get Realview Graphics to work. I have searched throughout this forum and other places for guidance, butI just can't get it to work. I tried installing the drivers on Nvidia's site. I am not sure if those drivers will work. Any help would be appreciated. Thank You
Brandon

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

The SW certified driver for your card is 6.14.10.6722. Is that what you have installed?

Did you disable ALL anti-virus & registry "tea-timer" services before installing SW04 & SPs?




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[bracin]

I actually do not have an anitvirus installed yet...I will by tomorrow. It says the driver is 6.14.10.6771 I will try to get the other driver. Thank You

 

[bracin]

I tried to install the driver that you had suggested. It says it is older than the one currently installed. I installed it anyways, but it still shows the old driver. Maybe because it is the Quadro FX Go1400, it is a different driver and not yet supported by Solidworks Realview. I have the open gl settings set for Solidworks, but in Tools/options/performance the "use software open gl" is darkened and I can't use that button. I am not sure what to do at this point. Please let me know if there is anything else to try.

 

[Theophilus]

This seems obvious, but you've turned it on in SolidWorks, right?

Also, you might try toggling the various card settings and testing the results--hardware acceleration, Open GL, whatever--at least until you get a better response. Try contacting your VAR and see if they know of a patch/trick/setting.


Jeff Mowry

http://www.industrialdesignhaus.com

Reality is no respecter of good intentions.

 

[bracin]

The "realview graphics" button is greyed out. Is there a setting somewhere within tools.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

SW lists the Graphics Cards it has tested at

http://www.solidworks.com/pages/services/VideoCardTesting.html

You should uninstall the currently installed driver before trying to install an older driver. The 6771 driver may well be OK for SW ... it just hasn't been tested &/or certified yet.

The nVidia cards have application specific settings, which can be found by RMB the nVidia icon in the System Tray (bottom RH corner of the screen). Make sure that SolidWorks is selected.

Also check out:-
Testing for a Faulty Video Card or Driver faq559-1066
How do I set the Software OpenGL option in SW and turn the Hardware Acceleration to "None"? faq559-1058




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[MElam]

You stated "in Tools/options/performance the "use software open gl" is darkened and I can't use that button."

Are you checking the setting with no files open at the time?

Is it darkened with or without a checkmark in it?

 

[Bouke]

Did you install Real-View when you installed SW2004? Maybe you can do a modify-install using the CD to see if you checked the real-view add-in.

Bouke Brouwers
Mechanical Engineer
SW2005 SP1.0

 

[jmongan]

I would guess your "shaders" directory does not exist. Look in the SW install directory. At the root level you should have a directory name "shaders". When realview is not installed you will only have a "shaders_soft" directory.

To fix do a reinstall and make sure you opt for realview graphics.

I ran into this using the Admin Director image with SW. It does not allow the install of the shaders directory. I had to do a regular install, copy the shaders folder to the network and write a batch file to copy it to everyones SW install directory.

 

[captaincaveman747]

I remember having a similar problem with the RealView Graphics with SW2004. I think there was a download (fix) on the SW site called "Shaders.exe" approx 12 MB.
TTFN,
CC

 

[Bouke]

@jmongan:

I also came up with that not-installed problem because I use an administrative image. But I was able to fix it and at this moment my image does install real-view on the machines. To fix this you have to edit the "ADDLOCAL=" line in the .ini-file. Add "RealViewGraphicsdisplay" to this line.

I think this will also fix your problem.

Regards,

Bouke Brouwers
Mechanical Engineer
SW2005 SP1.0

 

[bracin]

Thanks for everyone's help. It turns out that there is a patch for the video card in the M70. Once I installed the patch it works perfectly. Thanks again for all the help.
Brandon

 

[jmongan]

Thanks Bouke, that did it. That will save me a step in the future.

 

[83ChevyGuy]

Bracin, I just bought an M70 also, same problem. Could you let me know how you fixed it. Thanks

 

[bracin]

Go to the Solidworks web site and approved graphics cards...Dell...at the bottom is the M70 laptop. You have to download and install a patch. For some reason I was unable to get it from the web (not sure why) so I had Digital Dimensions (solidworks support) e-mail me the patch. If you are unable to find it, I can try and find it again and e-mail it to you. Good Luck
Brandon

 

[83ChevyGuy]

Thanks, I got it.

Kevin

 

[TransparentBrain]

Could use that patch as well for my m70 if anyone has a copy.

Thanks