topic Re: change graphic setting automatically in FlexSim Forum

change graphic setting automatically

chanykE2WUT — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 02:29:20 GMT

[ FlexSim 16.2.2 ]

I wonder if the developer can consider to add the feature to FlexSim to change the graphic setting to compatible automatically once a non-compatible card is detected. But we should allow user to opt back to the normal setting.

Could it be done?

regards

David

Re: change graphic setting automatically

joerg_vogel_HsH — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 08:09:38 GMT

Such a question is more like an idea to improve Flexsim. Create the question as an idea! @david.chan

Re: change graphic setting automatically

philboboADSK — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 16:14:56 GMT

No. The user’s hardware does meet FlexSim’s system requirements. They just need to update their drivers or configure their drivers to get it to work correctly. Compatibility Mode is a LAST RESORT to be used only if you must use a computer that doesn’t meet FlexSim’s system requirements. We're not going to try to determine from the countless combinations of graphics drivers/hardware whether a computer will have graphics issues and then automatically enable compatibility mode; it is simply not possible. If we were able to do that, then we could change the code so that it could work without compatibility mode on systems that have issues. They have issues because the graphics card says it can do something, but when you tell it to do it, it doesn’t work. That’s a driver issue that is fixed by updating to a version of the driver that actually does what the card was designed to be able to do.

Compatibility Mode should never need to be used. Automatically putting a computer into compatibility mode goes against that philosophy.

FlexSim already asks the graphics card about each OpenGL feature that it uses and falls back to older, slower features when the card says it can’t do it. The problem comes when the card says it can do it, but then doesn’t actually do it. This is nearly always fixed by updating the graphics driver. It’s a software issue, not a hardware issue.

Re: change graphic setting automatically

chanykE2WUT — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 02:19:59 GMT

@phil.bobo

The reason for such request is there are many new leads came to us to tell us they can't see any object after the dropping something on the modeling space. So we have to tell them to switch to compatibility mode. I know there are many that also did not even bother to ask and switch to other application immediately.

Regards

David