Hi,I just installed Inventor 2015 on my old Precision M90 notebook and I am resposible for testing the application to migrate all workstations in my company from Inventor 2014.
For my surprise, I found very disapointing performance issues, all times to open application/assembly/drawing are up from 10 to 30% longer, and when I tryied to operate an assembly with 16500 occurences I realized that the software doesn't recognize my video card, forcing every time the key "Software graphics" on Options>>Hardware to ON. The performance panning or rotating is terrible, as I did not have the videocard. If I click the "Diagnostics" button, Inventor says:
"This Direct3D graphics driver is Microsoft WHQL certified...", everything seems to be ok.
Any ideas? I have change all the Display configurations to the same as I have there in Inventor 2014.
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Dimitri,
I would like to have you create the following two reports off of one of the computers that is experiencing the issue:
Inventor Diagnostics
Microsoft DxDiag
I have attached two PDFs to assist you if needed.
Dimitri:
Your problem is that the Quadro FX 2500M is a DX9 level GPU. We require DX10 as a minimum for R2015.
You can see this information in your reports on this line:
DDI Version: 9Ex
The "DDI" is the Device Driver Interface ... the interface to your GPU from the Win7 x64 SP1 OS ... and it is DX9 Extended, which means it supports the WinOS DXGI level support required by Vista and later (e.g. your Win7 OS), but your GPU is old enough that it is not a DX10 level GPU.
BTW, do not be confused by this line in your reports:
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
This is the DX SW version installed on your system ... and you have DX11 level WinOS SW which comes with Win7; however, your GPU cannot support it which is why the DDI version is 9Ex.
Any questions are welcome ...
Norbert
@NorbertGraphics wrote:
Dimitri:
Your problem is that the Quadro FX 2500M is a DX9 level GPU. We require DX10 as a minimum for R2015.
You can see this information in your reports on this line:
DDI Version: 9Ex
The "DDI" is the Device Driver Interface ... the interface to your GPU from the Win7 x64 SP1 OS ... and it is DX9 Extended, which means it supports the WinOS DXGI level support required by Vista and later (e.g. your Win7 OS), but your GPU is old enough that it is not a DX10 level GPU.
BTW, do not be confused by this line in your reports:
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
This is the DX SW version installed on your system ... and you have DX11 level WinOS SW which comes with Win7; however, your GPU cannot support it which is why the DDI version is 9Ex.
Any questions are welcome ...
Norbert
Good info BUT..
he fixes that how?
I think you are telling him he needs to buy a new graphics card..
Dimitri,
I noticed on Dell's web sight a newer video driver for your M90:
http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/product-support/product/precision-m90/drivers
nVidia Quadro FX 2500M, Quadro FX 1500M, v.156.83 XP WHQL, A06 View details
nVidia_multi-device_A06_R172810.exe | Hard-Drive (55 MB)
Video |
Release date 11/27/2007
| Last Updated 11/3/2011
| Optional
Version 156.83 XP WHQL,A06
This would be a reasonable first step.
so you are telling me that my lovely old 2007th computer just hit the end of its life!!!
I guess updating drivers won't work either.
hummm workstations like this here in Brazil costs more than $ 4000 !!!
@Anonymous wrote:
so you are telling me that my lovely old 2007th computer just hit the end of its life!!!
I guess updating drivers won't work either.
hummm workstations like this here in Brazil costs more than $ 4000 !!!
Unfortunately, your computer built in 2007 is ... 7 years old. It's well past its prime, and is about due to be replaced. Honestly, I'm a little astonished that a laptop even made it to 7 years!
If you need to save some money on the replacement ... desktop hardware is a lot less expensive than the equivalent power in a laptop. Also, you don't need to spend the extra money on a Quadro card in a workstation that will be running Inventor - a good upper-mid consumer grade card will do just fine.
Rusty