My employer expects me to do Civil 3d work, and recently bought new computers as part of their updating to windows 7 and 64-bit software, but when i am in civil 3d and try to do anything like grading, or if i am trying to orbit in 3d and/or display in shaded/realistic view it's so painfully slow that it's not worth trying and just freezes for minutes while it's trying to display the changes. The computer has 16gb ram, a quad-core intel processor, but a video card that can be bought online for $40, an HD 6450. I just want to get some advice and make sure this is the problem before suggesting they buy a better card for my computer, and what would be the minimum they could spend to make it bearable to work with?
(my pc has comparable specs with a much better video card and I don't have any problems with other Autodesk programs so i'm assuming this is the problem)
Thanks,
Rich
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