Re: Slow mouse reactions on SW 2006



How am I supposed to be able to
keep my systems up with certified cards other than dumb luck?


You're way overexaggerating. ATI has been bad for OpenGL apps since at
least 1999. Do a search on this newsgroup for Radeon, and it is reviled
as often as it is mentioned. nVidia has been good for SW as far back as
I've dealt with them. These things don't change from release to
release, although recommended driver versions do.

The machine you spec'ed was bargain basement home internet box, maybe ok
for casual gaming. A high end graphics card (nVidia Quadro FX 4400 for
$2000+) is way more money than what you paid for an entire computer with
specs like that. For reference, if you go to the www.Xicomputer.com
website and follow the link for the Mtower 64 SLI Workstation, the
starting price is $1059. It has a better processor (3800 instead of
3400) more ram (1 Gb instead of 512 k) better video (GeForce MX4000
instead of a Radeon, PCIe insted of AGP, and SLI capable to boot). You
could trade the 15" monitor that comes with it for a little extra hard
drive (only $25 to double the 80 Gb drive). So if we're generous, let's
say you have $1000 into the hardware. It's simply inadequate to run
SolidWorks.

I wouldn't jump on you like this except that you're trying to pin this
on SolidWorks, and the responsibility for your problem is clearly not
theirs. I'm all for letting them know when there's a problem, but this
isn't one of those times. You sound like an IT person who got caught
not paying attention.
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