Autodesk 2009 Grahphics Errors

[Anonymous]

We have been having issues in an school lab with Inventor behaving correctly on aging Dell Precision WorkStation 450s. I am hoping the Nvida drivers were just out of date since they have now all been upgraded to because users have been reporting numerous issues including outright Inventor crashes. For some unexplained reason over half of the lab keeps switching to software rendering mode the slowest and least useful over using directx. Panning within a 2D document using the scroll button has also randomly stopped working on and off for many users. Now running Quadro Release 176.04 listed as performance drivers for Nvida's site. They list Autocad specific drivers but we do not have Autocad 2009 installed only the Inventor package along with Revit and 3dsmax. Am I using the right drivers now and what could be causing these issues? Thanks Daniel

[Anonymous]

The 1GB of memory is really small. Can you try
increasing the memory on one of the machines to at least 2GB to see if the
instability problem is eliminated.

If the software was installed with any A/V software
active on the machines, this will lead to instability problems.

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InventorSuite 2010
Dell Precision 690
Dual Quad Core E5320
@ 1.86GHz
4Gb DDR SDRam - 667 Mhz, ECC
SAS 146Gb - 15k rpm
Quadro
FX3500 256Mb - Driver: 182.08 Bios: 5.71.22.55.08
Direct 3D
XP Pro
Sp3  3Gb/2800
Space Explorer USB, release: 3.6.10 driver 6.6.4 firmware
3.17
AVG 8.5

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We
have been having issues in an school lab with Inventor behaving correctly on
aging Dell Precision WorkStation 450s. I am hoping the Nvida drivers were just
out of date since they have now all been upgraded to because users have been
reporting numerous issues including outright Inventor crashes. For some
unexplained reason over half of the lab keeps switching to software rendering
mode the slowest and least useful over using directx. Panning within a 2D
document using the scroll button has also randomly stopped working on and off
for many users. Now running Quadro Release 176.04 listed as performance
drivers for Nvida's site. They list Autocad specific drivers but we do not
have Autocad 2009 installed only the Inventor package along with Revit and
3dsmax. Am I using the right drivers now and what could be causing these
issues? Thanks Daniel

[Anonymous]

Yeah we would like to upgrade to new machines but that is not going to happen at this point. A RAM upgrade may be in order though I will have to see if more RAM makes much of a difference. Can the video card max out as well possibly causing issues? We do have Symantec Corporate edition on the base image I am not sure of the order of installation. One image per hardware configuration is made in this case and then broadcast to the lab via Novell Zenworks.