Niels van der Veer
Inventor professional user & 3DS Max enthusiast
Vault professional user/manager
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Niels van der Veer
Inventor professional user & 3DS Max enthusiast
Vault professional user/manager
The Netherlands
Niels van der Veer
Inventor professional user & 3DS Max enthusiast
Vault professional user/manager
The Netherlands
Niels: I am considering a new PC which comes with the GTS 250 driver. I see that it is not tested on the www.inventor-certified.com/graphics/ website so I don't know if it is not certified or if it even matters. Others here have told me that as long as it is okay with Dx10, then it should be okay with the new IV. Now that you have been running your system for a few months, have you found any other graphics related issues which could be attributed to te card?
I haven't seen this exact situation, but I have had that annoying windows error report / checking dialog pop up numerous times when I first started using Win 7 64-bit. I would just be doing my normal thing in Inventor and suddenly this message would pop up and Inventor would shut down.
I soon realized that Inventor wasn't actually crashing, but that Win 7 was terminating the program. It was trying to be helpful by terminating a program for me that it thought was no longer responding. I dug around in the windows preferences and discovered some settings in the Action Center. One setting tells windows to automatically search for solutions to error reports. Another setting tells windows to automatically check for maintenance issues and run the troubleshooter. I turned these OFF or set them to NEVER and I have never seen this happen since.
Now all I get are the normal Inventor crashes that I have come to expect and the accompanying Autodesk crash report dialog.
There may have been a few more settings in the Troubleshooting settings and the Problem Report settings. I did so much digging around to finally fix it that now I don't remember everything I did. But the two things I mentioned above should help for sure.
I guess Inventor does something during its normal processing that trips the Win 7 "Not Responding" detector. Windows thinks the program is no longer adequately functioning so it just euthanizes it. But if the settings are changed, Inventor just goes on its merry way and I don't skip a beat.
For what it's worth.
-cwhetten
@Anonymous wrote:Niels: I am considering a new PC which comes with the GTS 250 driver. I see that it is not tested on the www.inventor-certified.com/graphics/ website so I don't know if it is not certified or if it even matters. Others here have told me that as long as it is okay with Dx10, then it should be okay with the new IV. Now that you have been running your system for a few months, have you found any other graphics related issues which could be attributed to te card?
About your card not reporting WHQL... It is an Autodesk ****up. Here is the response from Autodesk support (see below)..... I already complained that that message should be removed if they no longer wish to update the graphics database. I wasted a few hours trying different drivers to no avail. But if your driver is listed on the manufacturers site as WHQL you basically ignore the message.
(response from Autodesk support)
"This is known behavior. The hardware diagnostics are actually checking to see if it is a certified driver in it's certified database and not the WHQL certification of the driver. If your driver is certified on our website you should be able to download and install the updated graphics database to get the hardware diagnostics to show it as certified.
http://www.inventor-certified.com/graphics/findDriver.php
If your card isn't certified on our website it won't be possible to get the hardware diagnostics to show as certified but it can be safely ignored. It won't affect the functionality or performance of the program."
I am going to move my question to its own topic as I need an answer soon.
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continued here http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Inventor/nvidia-GTS-250/td-p/2722049
Hey Karl,
Sorry for not replying sooner, only just had a chance to read up on this newsgroup.
As for your question, I haven't noticed any other graphic issues related to the card.
I'm not even 100% sure the issues we had were related to the card, but it's all working fine now.
Niels van der Veer
Inventor professional user & 3DS Max enthusiast
Vault professional user/manager
The Netherlands
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