AutoCAD only recognizes 218 MB of my video card memory

ClintFix · ‎04-12-2012

I'm running Plant 3D 2012. I have never used a 3D CAD program that has worse performance (and I've used many different ones). I'm running a workstation with 12MB ram, windows 7 x64, 2.3 GHz xeon, and an Nvidia Quadro 5000 graphics card. One thing I noticed recently is that in the performance tuner log it shows that my video card only had 218 MB of memory. I attached a picture of the tuner log.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

dgorsman · ‎10-12-2006

Burned out card, or not properly seated in the slot? What does the nVidia control panel and diagnostic routines tell you?

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Rich.O.3d · ‎08-19-2008

i second that

sounds like bad ram on your card or a seating issue

try updating your driver from nvidia

the latest one seems to run crisp

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alvaro.nimasco · ‎10-29-2009

Which one would you recomend for AP3D ? is it best the AutoCAD Performance Driver ? (see img)

thanks

DarrenP · ‎09-13-2007

the performance driver may not even work for 2012

i would try the graphics driver

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