Inventor on laptop using ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

[Anonymous]

Is any one using this graphics card on a laptop and how well does it work with Inventor?

Thanks
Frank

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't trust it. It's not certified by Adesk.



http://www.autodesk.com/us/inventor/graphic_cards/



MechMan

[Anonymous]

FYI, if you are looking at a Compaq/HP laptop, you
may actually have an ATI Mobility Fire GL 9000.  The driver that comes
loaded on the machine incorrectly reports the card as the Radeon 9000 but
supposedly does not affect functionality in any way.  Nonetheless, their is
a driver update that corrects the problem.

Blane

[Anonymous]

If you have a pre-purchase choice, go with nvidia. If you already have the laptop, I was able to make my Radeon Mobility 7500 work pretty good with a lot of tweaking. Search the group for "firegl 7800" and you will probably find this discussed some.

[Anonymous]

If you are working with anything larger than 10 part assys expect trouble.
Hmm I even had a single part idw that would crash the graphics upon open
every time! This is "after" I forced it to accept the Mobility FireGL 9000
driver from HP "I think is where I got it" (using R3D Tweak, "similar to
RivaTuner, but for ATI cards). Prior to that it was hit/miss with open/work
on files. Single part models did pretty well with either driver Assemblies-
"you're on your own" (one window ONLY). I would be very cautious working
with idws using the Radeon driver, the FireGL driver was not that much of an
improvement.

If you have a newer Dell, get the Nvidia Geforce 4 Ti4200 Go [--->( Pt#
2Y068 Assembly,Card,Graphic,64M NV28,64B)<--- Dell Inspiron 8500] from Dell
Spare Parts (don't bother with the numbers given for the customer parts dept
on the Dell site, they won't help you. Get the number from one of the ads in
the Dell support forums.) It's not a Quadro but performs very well for me so
far. To be honest I think it performs almost as well as my desktop machine.
(GF4 Ti4200 128 running w/SoftQuadro4 = Quadro 4 780 XGL)
Be sure of what you're buying, and that it is compatable with your machine.

Still on IV 5.3 (:-((
Running the newest driver avail for the Go from Dell, Newest Graphics Bios,
& Newest Machine Bios.

R. Coleman


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Is any one using this graphics card on a laptop and how well does it work
with Inventor?
Thanks
Frank

[Anonymous]

I've used ATI cards with inventor for 3 years. I
still have a Radeon 9500pro on my home machine which I use with inventor
sometimes. At work, I have ditched the ATI card for a Quadro FX500 and
the difference is staggering. I no longer have ANY problems that I could say
were graphics card related. Personally, I would not touch another ATI card after
seeing the difference a proper one makes.

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Is
any one using this graphics card on a laptop and how well does it work with
Inventor?

Thanks
Frank