Re: Slow mouse reactions on SW 2006
- From: "news.lightship.net" <nojunk_allowed@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 18:28:33 -0500
Actually, aside from Solidworks, ATI has been hands-down the most reliable
video card that I have EVER had and the most compatible for most any app
that is not specifically written for a few video cards as each version of
Solidworks seems to be. I am using ATI cards exclusively and they are all
working great in previous versions of Solidworks.
I happend to have purchased this computer prior to SW 2006 so I really could
not know what I had in store for me so the option to get a SW 2006
compatible card wasn't really something I can do. Solidworks has said in
general that "A certified OpenGL workstation graphics card and driver" would
be what I need and all the ATI cards as well as thousands of others are just
that however only a hand full seem to get "certified" for Solidworks
versions.
The problem really isn't ATI or the other quality vendors (Not Diamond,
yuk). I still have some of the first AGP ATI cards still in use in some of
my older computers (2 years or more) and they work great with every other
engineering type application like Autocad Mentor Graphics Pads Suite and a
few otheres and even with some of these new games. Infact, I still do not
had reason to update my home ATI Xpert 2000 32MB AGP card even though I have
updated my RAM and MOBO several times over the years. I can still play
quite a few of the latest titles of some games.
Yes, today I could get an Nvidia today that is on the SW list, but what
about next year and the year after that. 3DLabs GVX line was fine for
SW2004 and 2005, but not 2006 and 3dLabs is a SW Partner. Same for the
Wildcat 4000 series. Also consider that the Wildcat Realizm 500 works in 06
and 05, but not in SW04. This is not even including the fact that some are
only certified in XP OR 2000 but not both. How am I supposed to be able to
keep my systems up with certified cards other than dumb luck?
"matt" <m_lombard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:MPG.1e518baf533a05bb989792@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
If "get a new video card" is the answer to issues every year I guess we
just
have to factor into our costs of operations for Solidworks the expense
associated with replacing video cards on all our engineering systems
every
year and all the costs associated with testing all our other system's.
With
our own internal testing costs, changing a $150 video card for a new one
really ends up costing us an extra $500 per switch.
If you have run into this multiple times, you should know better than to
still buy ATI cards in new computers that will run SW. You can get the
nVidia Quadro FX 500 for about $225. It is also considered a low end
card, but it doesn't have the limitations. nVidia (aside from the NVS
cards) has been a safe bet for several years now, and ATI has been a
poor choice for the same amount of time. Things don't change that
drastically release by release.
.
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