Quadro4 900 Problems

[Anonymous]

We just got a Quadro4 900 that I am testing. Most of the time, Inventor runs
great on it. However, once in a while, the video on Inventor only slows way, way
down. It takes forever to refresh. This is not consistent, except whenever it
happens I have to reboot. This never happened on our Oxygen GVX1 Pro card we had
in. I am using the 4072 drivers. 512 Ram, 1.4 GHz. We have a new computer, but
IT ordered a mobo with no AGP slot, so I'm waiting. Plus, I wanted to do a
direct comparison Quadro4 vs. Oxygen. So far, Quadro is way better, except for
this problem.

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Dave Jacquemotte
Automation Designer

[Anonymous]

What driver do you use?

Are you running 32-bit color depth?



Dave J wrote:
> We just got a Quadro4 900 that I am testing. Most of the time, Inventor runs
> great on it. However, once in a while, the video on Inventor only slows way, way
> down. It takes forever to refresh. This is not consistent, except whenever it
> happens I have to reboot. This never happened on our Oxygen GVX1 Pro card we had
> in. I am using the 4072 drivers. 512 Ram, 1.4 GHz. We have a new computer, but
> IT ordered a mobo with no AGP slot, so I'm waiting. Plus, I wanted to do a
> direct comparison Quadro4 vs. Oxygen. So far, Quadro is way better, except for
> this problem.
>
> --
> Dave Jacquemotte
> Automation Designer
>
>
>
>

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Jorgen Bjornes

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[Anonymous]

As I stated, I am running 4017 driver. And yes, I'm in 32-bit.

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Dave Jacquemotte
Automation Designer

[Anonymous]

Dave,
I'm running a Quadro4 900 here without these problems, but I found out that
the cpu speed made more difference than anything else. With the AMD 1.2GHz,
IV was SLOW, but with the P4 2.53GHz, the grafic is very responsive and
fast, with the 3.06GHz it is even better.
Very seldom I see the slowdown you mention when I have very many windows
open at the same time, only help is to close&restart IV.
You might check the driver setting for unified z-buffer, that could make a
difference (it is set to ON here)

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Regards,
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Leo Laimer
Bad Ischl - Austria

[Anonymous]

Have you tried 41.03?

John Bilton
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[rllthomas]

With nasty horrible high triangle count parts in your assembly you can be wizzing along just fine until Inventor determines it needs to load more information from one of the nasty horrible bane of my existance parts and things just suddenly slow down like you described after looking at the hour glass for a considerable amount of time. This however wouldn't explain why the oxygen doesn't do it and you made no mention of the hour glass so I suspect it isn't related. As for Leo's comments CPU can make a big difference. A chart showing game performance can be seen here: http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/20020409/geforce4ti4200-10.html

[Anonymous]

I have not experienced anything like you describe, even when I was using
that driver. I have the Vertical sync set to "default off" in the
opengl settings, only change from default settings.

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Hal Gwin
Mechanical Designer
Xenogen

Dell Precision 650
Dual 2.66 GHz Xeon
1.5 GB DDR
Quadro4 900 XGL
nVidia 6.14.10.4201 drivers
1280x1024 32bit
Dell UltraSharp 19" LCD