Does Autodesk do MobileWorkstaion Graphics Card Certification

[AnthonyPaul2010]

I am in the middle of dealing with HP for a replacement of the machine specified in my signature.

The machine has been a dog since pulling it out of the box and most of the blue screen codes have been graphics card related but it doesn't matter how much I try and explain to HP that I think the problem might be that the graphics card is not certified by Autodesk they insist on replacing with the AMD M5950 card which doesn't appear to be on Autodesk's list of certified cards.

What I have noticed is that Autodesk doesnt seem to have any mobile workstation's graphics cards certified at all. These are usually the ones with and "M' before or after the model number. Does anybody know if Autodesk does testing on mobile workstations?

This is what HP is offering as a replacement:

8760w with a AMD FirePro M5950 with 1 GB dedicated GDDR5 video memory

Operating system	Genuine Windows® 7 Professional 64
Processors	Intel® Core™ i7-2620M (2.70 GHz, 4 MB L3 cache)
Processor technology	Intel® Core™ i7 with vPro technology
Chipset	Mobile Intel® QM67 Express

Has anybody got one of these and is using it with IV2012?

[VinodBalasubramanian]

Hi Paul,

We don't recommend a particular hardware configuration. However you could look at the below documentation for some additional information on what is needed for optimal performance of Inventor.

http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/Inventor/enu/2012/Help/0073-Autodesk73/0460-Assembli460/Work_with_Large...

Hope it helps.

[mcgyvr]

HP is notorious for having old bios versions on their machines that many times do not support the hardware properly.. Have you tried or have they suggested a bios flash? (use caution when doing so)

[AnthonyPaul2010]

I'm not sure if that has been done but will certainly look into it.

In my OP I was asking if Autodesk does certification on the 'M' type graphics cards in mobile workstations as it appears from their website that they dont.

Vinod didn't answer the question however I'm still very interested to know if they do.

[VinodBalasubramanian]

Thanks Antony. I do know that i wasn't explicit with my answer. Because we don't officially acknowldege a hardware until tested by our QA on all platforms.

Was just curious, I took this from our graphic card certification site. Is this what you are after,

Looking forward to your reply.

[AnthonyPaul2010]

Yes that is it Vinod. Why doesn't Autodesk test with mobile? Maybe they do and I've missed it.

Looking forward to your response.

[VinodBalasubramanian]

The mobile in the above screenshot refers to cards belonging to mobile workstations. I am just wondering is there any specific card that you want to see on this list.

[AnthonyPaul2010]

Yes it certainly looks that way but when I click the find button it get the message shown on the attached sreen snipe.

Do you get this also?

[VinodBalasubramanian]

Thanks Anthony. I got the problem now. It looks like if you select both product and the corresponding design suite, the result comes out as none. You just need to select inventor and leave the suites field empty to get the right results.

Here are the results for mobile graphic cards certified for Inventor.

I will report this UI difficulty to the corresponding person. Thanks for letting us know.

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[AnthonyPaul2010 · Accepted solution]

No problems at all I'm glad we got to the bottom of it becuase I did the search for Nvidia and sure enough the card (2800M) that is in my HP now is not listed but the new laptop will have a certified AMD M5950 card so hopefully it works.

Thanks Vinod.

[SBix26]

If you search for Inventor 2011 instead of 2012, your 2800M is listed (I have to go back to Inventor 2009 to find my 2700M).  It appears that certification is done on currently available hardware, not on the older hardware that many of us have.

You also have the option of a Quadro 3000M with the 8760w.